Widely publicized killings of people of color at the hands of police has awakened a populous of white people to join the racial justice movement, many for the first time. However, given the deeply rooted systems of white supremacy in the U.S., even the most diligent white people find it difficult to rid themselves of white supremacist psychologies and cultures. And, despite intentions to combat systemic racism, they often ignore the need to address personal blind spots.

When white people fail to understand their own whiteness, biases, and points of complicity, they end up hindering anti-racist work.

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The White Anti-Racist Survey Project seeks to answer the question, “How can the racial justice movement intervene to combat psychologies of whiteness and white supremacy?” Through a national survey, we are collecting information from white identified anti-racists to understand processes of psychological change. Using this information, we partner with local and national organizations to develop interventions to interrogate and undermine psychologies of whiteness.

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