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Practising Social Change is the practitioner’s journal of The NTL Institute for Applied Behavioural Science.

It is a collaborative and reflective meeting place for practitioners in Applied Behavioural Science who seek to work at their developmental edge: curious, conceptual thinkers charged with supporting change in work relationships, in teams, in communities or in the larger society, and who may be able to learn from the experience of others in different parts of the world.

White Women: Maintainers or Disruptors of Racism?

Claire Halverson

I identify as an anti-racist racist. I am a White woman living in the United States seeking to understand my complicity with a society in which racism is deeply embedded in our history, culture, institutions, and interpersonal relations. This system privileges White people and dehumanizes us all. I continue to learn how it affects me as a White, middle class, heterosexual, ciswoman. As an anti-racist, I am committed to doing what I can to disrupt this system. Over the years, I have questioned what I was taught about the history of race and racism in the United States. I have wanted to learn about the role of White women in maintaining the status quo of racism, and what we have done to disrupt it. The focus of this article is on the responses of White women...

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Claire Halverson

Claire B. Halverson, PhD, is a Professor Emeritus at the School of International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont where she taught in the Social Justice in International Relations concentration of the Master’s Program in International and Intercultural Management, Leadership and Service. She is a member of NTL Institute where she is co-steward of the Social Justice Hub and co-facilitator of the White Women in NTL dialogue. She is co-author of Effective Multicultural Teams: Theory and Practice, 2008. email: claireh4@comcast.net