Our goal is to create a short video that breaks down the definition of whiteness according to how people experience it. We’ll be focusing on the UP campus, but will be drawing from external research to ground a series of interviews. By identifying whiteness and challenging its invisibility, we hope to bring awareness to how whiteness influences UP’s racial climate. We hope that through awareness, we can start a discussion and empower people to identify how whiteness influences the institutions and behaviors of those at UP, and possibly challenge injustices that scrutiny reveals. Discrimination or prejudice that is invisible can be the most powerful, because it’s difficult to identify. It’s important to name and understand whiteness on our campus so injustices are confronted rather than perpetuated.
Members: Tori Pinto, Melissa Hager, Nastacia Voisin, Monique Woodward