For most of my 40-something years of life, I’ve lived in the suburbs: the neighborhoods my family lived in strongly resemble the one I chose to buy my home in, which has a diverse range of families from different cultures, but is populated with a majority of whites. Given that pop culture, media and other modes of expression and education are mostly delivered from their perspective and using their voices, it’s really not hard to decipher what they think about ‘minorities’ and how they ‘see’ their role relations (here’s a hint, most don’t make the connection AT ALL and resent any implication that inequality, bias and racism exists), but for those who don’t think they get it, the Whiteness Project can remove that naiveté once and for all….if one can handle it.

“The Whiteness Project could be interpreted as a way for whites with noxious views on race to advance their hegemony on public discourse, but it’s not. All Dow is doing is putting a camera in front of white folks and asking them to elaborate on their opinions, relaying the perceived inability of white Americans to grapple with racial issues in a sincere and up-front manner.

Provocative and unsettling, the Whiteness Project is straight from the horse’s mouth, which, for better or worse, is more telling than you might imagine.” (Identities.Mic)