Jennifer Harvey

The Paradoxes and Challenge of Anti-Racist Whiteness

"Pass the Mic!" "Learn to speak up!"

"You can’t know what you don’t know." "Don’t expect people of color to educate you."

The challenges of seeking to grow antiracist-commitment and end our complicity with white supremacy has many wrong steps (and few right ones). Getting real about this—and developing ways to understand it—is a critical work in growing a culture of robust sustained (and multi-racial) antiracist cultures. Let’s talk about it!


Dr. Jennifer Harvey

is a professor of religion at Drake University where she also serves as Faculty Director for the Crew Scholars Program. She has a Ph.D. in Christian Ethics from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Her work focuses primarily on racial justice and white anti-racism. Her books include the New York Times Bestseller Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in Racially Unjust America and Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation. Dr. Harvey has written for the New York Times, CNN and countless other publications and is a widely sought public speaker. She has appeared on nationally syndicated televisions programs, including Good Morning America to CNN’s Town Hall with Sesame Street and is a frequent guest on radio, including having been interviewed on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” with Michel Martin and “It’s Been a Minute” with Sam Sanders. Dr. Harvey is also ordained in the American Baptist Churches (USA).