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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"White Studies"”.
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Black Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia.
… and how they compare with the majority white population. How regional black folk belief systems compare to those documented in other parts of the country is also examined. Thirty-five blacks selected opportunistically were interviewed with a structural questionnaire. Topics addressed …
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An exploration of preservice teachers' multicultural self-efficacy and awareness of white privilege
… of color, while the majority of teachers are White, middle-class females. Given the increasing pluralism in U.S. schools, it is imperative that teachers have multicultural self-efficacy as well as an awareness of White privilege in order to be prepared to teach in a culturally competent …
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Racial Encounters In The American Theatre: Whiteness And Eugene O'Neill, Blackness And August Wilson
… have undertaken to analyze depictions of whiteness in American letters, although “white studies” is slowly assuming legitimacy in the academy in the 1990s. “Racial Encounters in the American Theatre” therefore attempts to bridge this gap in literary and critical studies by examining the …
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Killers or Keepers of the Dream?: An Exploration of Race and White Privilege With White, Female Teachers From A Rural Southern School District
… this study explores the experience of four White female teachers teaching predominantly Black students in a rural Southern school district. As these White female teachers recalled, relived, and reflected on their own lived experiences with race (McIntyre, 1997), they were encouraged to …
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A Curriculum of Place: Who Are We? Southerners Beneath the Red Clay and the Black Dirt
… theory (Delgado & Stefancic, 2001), critical white studies (Delgado & Stefancic, 1997), Black womanist perspectives of race, class, and gender (hooks, 2000a, 2000b, 2009), interrelatedness and education (Reynolds, 2003), political cartography of Christianity (Reynolds & Webber, 2009), …
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I eat shit food and am not worthy: Negotiating the queer weight of "white trash" embodiment in Dorothy Allison's Corpus
… by interactions between fatness, queerness, and “white trashiness” on the terrain of late-twentieth-century representational and lived southern culture, and specifically how queer and “white trash” embodiments are both legible in terms of fatness, much in the way that gravy thickens in Allison’s …
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Untold Stories and Silenced Voices: Lives Inside a North Georgia Elementary School
… inquiry into the lived experiences of Southern, white, female teachers who teach their overwhelmingly Southern, white student populations in a rural/suburban North Georgia elementary school. I explore the obstacles and challenges they face as they experience the negative and crippling effects of …
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Can we Teach if We Don't Know?: A Middle Class White Female Special Education Teacher and Students of Color in Rural Georgia
… 1999; Ayers, 2004) and critical disability studies (Kaplan, 1999; Rogers & Swadener, 2001; Barnes, Oliver & Barton, 2002; Thomas, 2002; Allan, 2006; Britton, Floyd & Murphy, 2006; Burch & Sutherland, 2006; Danforth, 2006; Davis, 2006; Ferri, 2006; Gallagher, 2006; Rice, 2006; Shakespeare, …