White allies

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White Allies are those members of the dominate culture (in the United States), who actively resist the role of oppressor, and who act as allies of people of color. There have been and are white people throughout history who engage in antiracist activities.

Some of these people are Morris Dees, the executive director of the Southern Poverty Law Center; Virginia Foster Durr; Lois Stalvey; and William Sloane Coffin.

	One of the consequences of racism in our society is that those who oppose racism are often marginalized, and as a result, their stories are not readily accessed.
—Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? 2003, Basic Books

[edit] References

• Brown, Cynthia Stokes (2002). Refusing Racism: White Allies and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Teachers College Press. ISBN: 080774204X.
• Dees, Morris, Steve Fiffer Dees (1991). A Season of Justice. Scribners.
• Durr, Virginia Foster (1990). Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr. Fire Ant Books. ISBN: 0817305173.
• Stalvey, Lois (1989). The Education of a WASP. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN: 0299119742.
• Coffin, William Sloane (2005). A Holy Impatience (new edition). Yale University Press. ISBN: 0300111541.