"With range, depth, and integrity, the narratives in this collection flesh out both the 'promise and the way of life' of white people who have taken on racism as central to their life work. "White Men Challenging Racism" is a valuable contradiction to the construct of 'angry white men' that has fueled racial backlash over the past twenty years."--Mab Segrest, author of "Memoirs of a Race Traitor"

Foreword / James W. Loewen xvPreface xxxiAcknowledgments xxxvIntroduction: Just Living 1Movement EldersHerbert Aptheker, 86, radical historian; San Jose, CA 17Stetson Kennedy, 85, journalist and Klan infiltrator; Jacksonville, FL 27Art Branscombe, 81, fought for a racially integrated neighborhood; Denver, CO 37Horace Seldon, 77, coalition builder; Boston, MA 44Pat Cusick, 70, community organizer; Boston, MA 51Nat Yalowitz, 70, social worker and organizer; New York, NY 60Grassroots OrganizingJesse Wimberley, 43, organizes working-class white men; West End, NC 73Jim Hansen, 42, executive director, United Vision for Idaho; Boise, ID 82Chip Berlet, 52, researches right wing groups; Cambridge, MA 90Joe Fahey, 44, union official and labor organizer; Watsonville, CA 99Mike McMahon, 60, community organizer with Central American immigrants; Houston, TX 109Art and PoliticsDavid Attyah, 34, graphic artist and founder of Think Again; San Francisco, CA 121Si Kahn, 57, singer/songwriter and executive director of Grassroots Leadership; Charlotte, NC 132Steve Bailey, 43, executive director of Jump-Start Performance Company; San Antonio, TX 143Tim Wise, 33, writer, lecturer, social critic, and activist; Nashville, TN 152Billy Yalowitz, 42, community-based performance director and choreographer; Philadelphia, PA 164Challenging the System from WithinJohn Allocca, 39, bilingual Spanish teacher; Boston, MA 175Bill Johnston, 60, former Boston police officer; Emerald Isle, NC 185A. T. Miller, 43, teacher and director of multiculturalism at University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI 194Ken Kimerling, 56, lawyer for Puerto Rican and Asian American civil rights; New York, NY 203Monte Piliawsky, 57, teacher and historian; Detroit, MI 212Lonnie Lusardo, 56, consultant and community organizer; Seattle, WA 222Lee Formwalt, 51, historian and dean at a historically black college; Albany, GA 228Nibs Stroupe, 55, minister of a multiracial congregation; Decatur, GA 237Challenging the System from the MarginsJohn Cole Vodicka, 53, founder of the Prison and Jail Project; Americus, GA 249Richard Lapchick, 56, advocate for racial and gender justice in sports and society; Orlando FL 258Chris Shuey, 46, environmental health specialist; Albuquerque, NM 265Terry Kupers, 58, psychiatrist, prison activist, and author; Oakland, CA 272Rick Whaley, 51, Native American treaty rights advocate; Milwaukee, WI 280Jim Murphy, 54, firefighter and advocate for children's rights in Southeast Asia; Boston, MA 289The Next GenerationSean Cahill, 38, researcher with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; New York, NY>Tobin Miller Shearer, 36, director of a Mennonite anti-racism initiative; Akron, PA 305Jason Wallach, 32, grassroots coordinator for the Mexico Solidarity Network; Chicago, IL 314Bill Vandenberg, 31, co-executive director of the Colorado Progressive Coalition; Denver, CO 322Matt Reese, 26, community activist; Louisville, KY 330Appendix 339Endnotes 343Suggestions for Further Reading 351About the Authors 355