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Identifying Race and Transforming Whiteness in the Classroom (Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.829
EAN: 9780820470689
ISBN: 0820470686
Label: Peter Lang Publishing
Manufacturer: Peter Lang Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 290
Publication Date: 2004-07
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Sales Rank: 224502
Studio: Peter Lang Publishing

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As educators, how do we challenge and interrupt the social construction of whiteness in ourselves, in the classroom, in schools, and in the wider society? 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.

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- Thought Provoking
If you read the book with an open mind, you will see just how much it speaks to the minority American experience. It's hard for us to see things from others' perspectives, but if you allow yourself to do so, it will open your eyes. I'm about half-way through it and I've found it to be very enlightening. It really does break our system down and show how the disadvantaged have barriers to their social mobility. It's not saying that white people are the root of all evil; instead, it differentiates between "whiteness" and "people who are white". It defines whiteness as "a constellation of social practices, knowledge, norms, values, and identities that maintain a race and class hierarchy in which white people disproportionately control power and resources" (p.14). Yes, there are poor and powerless white people in this country, and no, that doesn't run contrary to the book's message. I think that some of the previous ... Read More

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- race of the racists.
Except for the concept that Hiphop is an actual culture, the study of Whiteness ranks high on the list of useless academic pursuits.
What is the true purpose of studying whiteness? Those who liken it to the study Afro-American, Hispanic or Women's history will be quite surprised to learn that the study of whiteness is an excercise in social/racism couched in the language of scientific inquiry. Read any of the above mentioned topics and you'll discover the unique gifts of women and minorities their gifts to humankind range from literature to law and in between-but what makes them realy unique is that they accomplished so much, in spite of their Victimhood.
The perpetrators of all their misery are mostly white males(feminist white women are seen as victims as well). Under the guise of objective research the way Whites communicate, make laws, write history, tell jokes, dance and worship reflect their ... Read More

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- Entirely Unproductive
This book was assigned me by a professor for a master's class. Throughout the week I have been plodding through it, and as I sit here preparing to write on it I find myself losing respect for very degree I am earning. A masters in education cannot mean what I thought it did if this is the kind of postmodernist pablum that passes for thoughtful discourse. Unabashed leftism is the rule in education in the United States, but this book even offends those it purports to befriend.

Simplistic. Thoughtlessly antagonistic. It adds nothing but poison to the great American experiment.

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- Seeing the World in Colors
Several chapters I found very insightful information that will be pertinent to my teaching and have a lasting impression on me. From the seating of the students to how they view me as "white." One chapter I especially enjoyed was Christensen's Tribal Paradigm she begins by describing the importance of the tribal Elder's knowledge, "Elder knowledge passed through oral tradition is important and even structural in the holistic world of the Indian (Lea & Helfand, 2004, p. 172)." As I teach, I try to bring in real world examples so that the students can have something to think about.
Parts of the book were over-generalized. The over-generalization that bothered me a lot is lumping "whiteness" with all people of white color. There are underprivileged white people and rich white people who take advantage of everything. If it were so easy for all white people, then I would not have had to take out student ... Read More

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