My (Discouragingly) White Life by Lise Melhorn-Boe -SOLD OUT!

In the book, Learning to be White: Money, Race and God in America, the author, Thandeka, writes: "African Americans have learned to use a racial language to describe themselves and others. Euro-Americans also have learned a pervasive racial language. But in their racial lexicon, their own racial group becomes the great unsaid." As a means of becoming aware of this racialization process, she suggests playing the Race Game. It has only one rule: for a week, one must use the term white whenever one mentions the name of a person of European descent. For example, one might say, "my white friend Beth, or "my white son Matthias." I was taken aback by how overwhelmingly white is the number of my friends, acquaintances and contacts. Out of this exercise came this book, My (Discouragingly) White Life. On acetate, I have printed the titles of all the people in my daily life, in white and pale brown. The layering on the acetate is beautiful, but there's no denying that it is mostly white.