Jennifer Holladay

Jennifer Holladay is the former senior adviser for strategic affairs at the Southern Poverty Law Center, and former director of its Teaching Tolerance Project. Holladay lectures and writes nationally on issues of difference; her area of specialty is white anti-racist activism. The Center for the Study of White American Culture recently published her guidebook, "White Anti-Racist Activism: A Personal Roadmap" as the forth volume of its series, The Whiteness Papers.


Pages authored by Jennifer Holladay

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“Your Child Will Be Placed in Level ...” During the fourth week of school, the form came home, stuffed into my daughter’s backpack: Your student scored a XX on his/her DIBELS literacy test...
“We’re Not Like That School” Did you hear about that high school with the obvious race problem? You know, the one where the n-word still gets used? Where friendships across...
‘Usually Offensive’ red·skin \ˈred-ˌskin\(noun) usually offensive : American IndianNote the “usually offensive” — a warning from one of the more neutral arbitrators of...
Maine, Marriage and Me I’ve gotten used to it now — peers voting down my right to get married, whether through state-level Defense of Marriage Acts, California’s Prop 8, or...
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The Three Billy Goats Gracious Once upon a time there were three billy goats who were to go up to the hillside to eat, and the name of all three was "Gracious." On the way up was a...
Teaching in the Downturn Few of today's teachers can remember an economic situation quite like the one we now face. To find analogies for the collapse of the housing bubble...
Survey Says? "Envision the year 2020. What issues do you think will present the greatest challenges to our schools then?" the moderator asked. For the teachers...
Our Journey to Kindergarten The butcher-paper display outside the classroom was as tall as me and twice as wide, a sweeping visual reminder of one of the school’s goals: Move 10...
Hesitation and Hope There is a story in this issue of Teaching Tolerance we were hesitant to publish — a story about a social justice movement being built by...
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Oral History and Civil Rights The Civil Rights Movement and other struggles for justice have impacted every community in the U.S. Using "Gates of Change" as contextual background...