An Unintentional Accomplice: A Personal Perspective on White Responsibility Baker Carolyn L.
An Unintentional Accomplice: A Personal Perspective on White Responsibility Baker Carolyn L. Carolyn L. Many years later, when Baker was in her mid-sixties, she first learned of the murder of Emmett…
Specifikacia An Unintentional Accomplice: A Personal Perspective on White Responsibility Baker Carolyn L.
An Unintentional Accomplice: A Personal Perspective on White Responsibility Baker Carolyn L.
Carolyn L. Many years later, when Baker was in her mid-sixties, she first learned of the murder of Emmett Till, sparking an investigation of her own position as a white woman in the midst of a world of racial trauma. Baker grew up in Southern California during segregation and came of age in the counter-cultural climate of the 1960s.
We find Baker facing the painful reality that, no matter how unintentional, she plays a role within a system that continues to inflict racial harm. An Unintentional Accomplice follows Baker's awakening to the realities of her own white privilege, confronting white guilt, navigating aspects of white identity, and searching out ways to be an ally who both acknowledges her own position and seeks to provide active support for those who live with a different set of circumstances. She comes to realize that, by not actively opposing discrimination, as a white