Lifting the White Veil: An Exploration of White American Culture in a Multiracial Context
TestimonialsInLifting the White VeilJeff Hitchcock provides an insightful, challenging and much needed roadmap for moving towards a multiracial society. -- Paul Kivel --  (Author ofUprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice)From the classroom to the corporate board room this is a must read.Lifting the White Veilby Jeff Hitchcock provides a straight forward, no nonsense, no guilt, no blame book to help white people understand and explore what it means to be White in America. This bold and comprehensive book is a major contribution and critical tool for us all to better understand one of the unspoken aspects of race and race relations today -- being white. -- Judith H. Katz, Ed. D. -- (Executive Vice President, Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, and author ofWhite Awareness: Handbook for Anti-Racism Training,Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1978, 2003)Rather than preach, Hitchcock shares frank and often brutally honest reflections on his own struggles with racism. In doing so, he eloquently drives home the point that an examination of white culture is, while at times painful, possible and worthwhile for all white Americans. -- Kathleen Korgen, Ph.D. -- (Author ofFrom Black to Biracial,Praeger 1998, 1999)Jeff Hitchcock has performed an invaluable service with this volume, for persons at all levels of anti-racist experience. By presenting the often difficult-to-discuss issues of racism and racial identity in clear, concise language, he has provided newcomers to these subjects with a critical starting point; and for those more versed in the dialogue of race, he has reminded us why these matters are so important. -- Tim Wise -- (Antiracist activist, essayist, advisor to Fisk University Race Relations Institute)