Identifying Race and Transforming Whiteness in the Classroom FROM THE PUBLISHER
Coming from diverse backgrounds, the contributors in this volume draw on their own well-examined experiences of race, racism, and whiteness in developing effective antiracist pedagogies and classroom activities that interrupt and contest whiteness. They have explored their own lives from the selective position of their own memories and have traced the ways in which their assumptions - which they use to mediate and interpret the world around them - have been constituted by public ideological forces. They have collaborated with others in building alternative pedagogies and support systems, enabling them to teach, and at the same time, reflect on the assumptions behind and the effects of their teaching. The result is the work collected here.
SYNOPSIS
Twelve American and Canadian educators and researchers contribute 12 essays describing their own individual and collective journeys to identify race and transform whiteness in the classroom. In addition to their personal accounts of reflection and transformation, they provide insights into the cultural forms of whiteness, suggestions for embracing ways of knowing that value difference and connectedness and for creating genuine harmony that recognizes and includes conflict, and descriptions of classroom practices in both K-12 and college that they have developed to support their work. No subject index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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