ABSTRACT
Cameron Rasmussen argues that the most important task white men face is coming to terms with and transforming the reality that white supremacy and patriarchy combined constitute a multilayered deadly force against people at the margins, from microaggressions to mass killings, driving systemic oppression as well as everyday violence. He argues that white supremacist patriarchy also causes harm to white men. Drawing on scholarship that seeks to explain white men’s harmful behavior, Rasmussen focuses on shame as a lens for understanding the forces that lead to violence. He offers shame work as a framework for conceptualizing strategies for reducing white men’s violence through approaches that include restorative and transformative justice as pathways to white men’s healing and accountability.
