Invited Speakers
Linda Martín Alcoff, Syracuse University
"Can Whites Be a Part of the Rainbow?"

Charles Mills, Northwestern University
"White Ignorance"

Lucius Outlaw, Vanderbilt University
"Considerations Toward a Rehabilitation of Whiteness"

Shannon Sullivan, Pennsylvania State University
"Whiteness as Wise Provincialism: Toward the Rehabilitation of a Racial Category"

Allegheny College will host a two-day conference on whiteness and racism. This event will bring together scholars and students from a number of area colleges and universities concerned with investigating the hidden yet ubiquitous attitudes and points of ignorance that constitute white privilege. The event consists of two main components–four plenary presentations and an undergraduate conference.