Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-206) and index.

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Beginning with Ourselves: The Importance of Doing Our Personal Work -- ch. 2 What's In It for Us? Why We Would Explore What It Means to Be White -- ch. 3 What Does It Mean to Be White? -- ch. 4 Understanding White Privilege -- ch. 5 How White Women Reinforce the Supremacy of Whiteness -- ch. 6 Barriers to Clarity: What Keeps White People from Being Able to See Our Whiteness and, Therefore, Our Privilege? -- ch. 7 Now that (I Think) I Understand White Privilege, What Do I Do? -- ch. 8 Talking about Race: What If They Call Me a Racist? -- ch. 9 Talking about Whiteness and Being White -- ch. 10 Becoming an Ally and Building Authentic Relationships Across Race: The Challenge and Necessity of Making Race Our Issue.