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Despite the wealth of historical scholarship, the numerous popular cultural representations, and an abundance of knowledge about the victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, a loud local silence still exists around the identity of White perpetrators. Throughout eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork between 2021-2023 at various cultural institutions, archives, and homes throughout Tulsa, I researched the identities of White perpetrators of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre to no avail. What I found was a cultural silence about White perpetrators which echoed throughout local politics, family histories, and archival collections. My dissertation argues that this silence about White perpetrators is the product of a communal process of omission and non-knowing which protects White supremacy. I refer to this silence as White innocence, drawing on Charles Mills’ and Gloria Wekker’s theorization of the nexus between memory, identity, and power. Differing from Mills, I argue that White innocence in Tulsa pertains to the silencing of White perpetrators, not Black victims. Throughout these chapters, I track how White innocence is inscribed into cultural memory and how White folks learn to not know about White perpetrators. This inability to name the White perpetrator in modern-day Tulsa, imagines present White society as innocent, owing nothing to a broader multi-racial public, nor to survivors or their descendants. Tulsa today, remains haunted by this phantom White perpetrator.