Author Visit: Jessie Daniels

Nice White Ladies (2021)


Wednesday, April 26 • 1:00pm-2:15pm • OnlineCourse 11726 • $25

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In conversation with cultural historian Lori Rotskoff, Professor Jessie Daniels discusses her most recent book, Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It (2021). Daniels focuses on the distinctive role that well-meaning white women play in perpetuating racism, how their everyday decisions harm communities of color, and, most importantly, how, going forward, they can avoid unintended complicity in the racial divide and work toward equality. Topics for discussion include the segregating impact of choices made about where to send kids to school, the brand of feminism that pushes women of color aside, and the wellness industry that insulates white women in a bubble of their own privilege. Daniels charts a better path for the future, looking to the white women who fight neo-Nazis online and in the streets and who challenge all-white spaces from workplaces to schools to neighborhoods.

JESSIE DANIELS is a Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and in the academic programs of Africana Studies, Critical Social Psychology, and Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Daniels is an internationally recognized expert on internet manifestations of racism, having studied race and racism in various forms of media for over thirty years. Her first book, White Lies (Routledge, 1997), explored far right extremist groups' printed newsletters; her second book, Cyber Racism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), examined some of the same groups' online efforts. Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It (Seal Press, 2021) is her most recently published book.

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