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The three authors are middle-aged white men who have
spent most of their adult years challenging racism and
other forms of oppression in their professional, volunteer,
and personal lives. They are passionate in their desire
to find ways to both challenge and embrace other white
men.
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Cooper
Thompson (cooperthom@earthlink.net)
has been leading workshops, consulting, organizing and
writing about sexism, homophobia, and racism full-time
for over twenty years. Because so many of the people he
works with are white women and people of color, he has
often felt isolated. These inteviews grew out of this
need to make cointact with and learn from other white
men who challenge oppression in environments both similar
to and different from his own. He is the author of many
essays and educational materials, including "A New
Vision of Masculinity" (published originally in Changing
Men magazine and reprinted in dozens of anthologies
and college readers), "White Men and the Denial of
Racism" in Readings for Diversity and Social Justice,
Routledge, and "On Being Heterosexual in a Homophobic
World" in Homophobia by Warren Blumenfeld,
Beacon Press, 1992. His ability to ask probing questions—and
get a response—has opened up the interview process
for many of the white men interviewed in this book. |
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Emmett
Schaefer (schaeferemmett@msn.com)
first begain teaching courses on social
class, race relations, gender, and African studies at
community colleges and universities 25 years ago and is
currently a faculty member at University of MAssachusetts,
Boston campus. As a result of his teaching and activism
around issues of oppression, his support work for liberation
struggles in southern Aftrica, and his personal relationships
with Native people, Asians and Asian-Americans, and Africans
and African-Americans, he has a strong working knowledge
of white racism. His ability to hear and understand what
others are saying has helped shape the narratives of the
white men interviewed for this book. |
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Harry
Brod (harry.brod@uni.edu)
is a child of Holocaust survivors and a child of the 60's.
Both heritages shape his commitments to justice, much
of which he has expressed in twenty years of profeminist
teaching, writing, and activism. He is the editor of A
Mensch Among Men: Explorations in Jewish Masculinity
(Crossing Press, 1988) and The Making of Masculinities
(Sage, 1994). He currently teaches in the Department of
Philosophy and Religion at the Univirsity of Northern
Iowa. His ability to read and edit text has helped translate
these oral interviews to written narratives. |
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