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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"critical whiteness"”.
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Capturing Critical Whiteness: Portraits of White Antiracist Professors
… strives to disrupt racism. Using a lens of critical theory applied through critical pedagogy and critical whiteness philosophies, the researcher highlights the following themes as they emerge: education, exposure, empathy, and engagement. This study contributes to the literature by providing …
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Examining Institutional History Narratives Through a Critical Whiteness Framework
… from an ahistorical perspective which places whiteness at the center of the history narrative. With a conceptual framework incorporating both critical race theory and white institutional presence, the study interrogated how universities are telling the stories of their histories regarding …
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A Critical Race and Critical Whiteness Theory Analysis of Preservice Teachers' Racialized Practices in a Literacy Across the Curriculum Course
… </p> <p>This study drew on the premises of critical race theory and critical whiteness theory to define racialized practices. The study began with these theories' assumptions that race is an important social construction in U.S. society that is used to position people hierarchically, …
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Whiteness Interrupted: Examining the Impact of Racialized Space on White Racial Identity
… at the heart of the interdisciplinary field of critical whiteness studies. Critical whiteness studies (CWS) epistemologically and theoretically upends traditional approaches to the study of race and racial inequality by averting the critical gaze from racially subordinate groups and focusing it …
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Whiteness and the Movement of Signification: Toward a Deconstruction of Ontologies of Absolute Difference
The field of critical whiteness studies relies on a presupposition that whiteness is a way to categorize a group of people as absolutely different from another. This is a flawed presupposition, as it creates an ontology of absolute difference (defined as a mode of being rooted in qualities of …
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Recognizing Whiteness: An Autoethnographic Examination of Whiteness in My Life
The purpose of this research was to examine whiteness not merely as an individual attribute but as an ideological and structural system that organizes everyday life and grants privilege to those perceived as white. Using a blend of critical and evocative autoethnography, I wrote stories about my …
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Identifying and addressing white supremacy in social work education
… dissertation by proposing the incorporation of critical whiteness theory (CWT) in social work education. As a subject area, critical whiteness studies emerged in the late 1990s as an expansion of critical race theory. A variety of disciplines have incorporated critical whiteness studies as a …
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Plugging Into Movement Work: White Racial Justice Action in the Era of Colorblind Racism
… in racial justice action. Although the field of critical whiteness studies has expanded markedly over the past couple of decades, little has been written specifically about white racial justice activists (and activism). This may be serving as a disconnect for white people who are trying to find …
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Racing Discourses: Constructions and Negotiations Students Make About Race
… campus are central to this work. Drawing from Critical Race Theory, Critical Whiteness Studies, and other race theories, I present qualitative analyses about race, which demonstrate how racism is cloaked and persists in colorblind discourse and the race talk of educated young people. This work …
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White Clinicians’ Way of Being with Their Black Clients
… who inherently hold racial bias according to critical whiteness theory (Olcon, Gilbert, & Pulliam, 2019), navigate this within their therapeutic work and relationships as clinicians with Black clients. Using the framework of clinician way of being, the conscious attitudes and beliefs that …
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Becoming an educator: identity, music education, and privilege
This study is an intertwined critical autoethnography through which my experiences, my stories, are woven together with memories of family, students, and teaching career. Together, the telling of these stories will explore how I negotiated my identity development throughout my middle and high …
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Applying a critical race framework towards anti-racist art teacher education
… studies, I have found that using critical race theory and critical Whiteness studies in education is useful in understanding how art teacher training programs might be failing to train art teachers to recognize and to counter racism in the classroom. Through a critical race …
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Whiteness in a hidden space—unspoken but still there, in a private space, the classroom
… female novice teacher were aware of their own Whiteness and privilege, and were prepared to teach in classrooms where the student population consists mostly of Black students. The conceptual framework that guided this study was Critical Whiteness Theory, which has its origins in Critical Race …
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Equipped for Change: A Grounded Theory Study of White Antiracist School Leaders’ Attitudes and Perceptions of Racial Consciousness in Educational Leadership
… of whom are well-intentioned, but lack the critical lens necessary in challenging and dismantling them. For White people, the enculturating normativity of White racial dominance, maintained by the social conditioning of Whiteness, facilitates an environment of racial ignorance and …
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Weisse Weiblichkeiten: Afrika, deutschsprachige Schriftstellerinnen und ihre (post-)koloniale Verortung von Geschlecht
… which they set their novels, but also reveal the critical, political and sometimes very personal agenda that each of these authors has in mind. Some of the female characters I discuss in this study demonstrate character traits that find their way into very recent German literary and media …
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“Trying Your Best in That Moment with That Person”: Maintaining Feelings of Efficacy and Relevance in the Therapeutic Relationship with Community Mental Health Clients Experiencing Psychosis
… Services Administration [SAMHSA], 2023), and critical whiteness theory (Okun & Jones, 2016), but primarily relying on the findings of study participants, this dissertation provides evidence for the following grounded theory: When clinicians do not believe that they have the skills or ability …
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Unpacking the Implementation of Restorative Practices: A Case Study of Race, Equity, and Change
… were analyzed through the theoretical lens of Critical Race Theory and the correlated theories of Interest Convergence and Critical Whiteness. Fullan’s Theory of Action of System Reform (2009a) provided the framework for the comparative systemic analysis of the implementation of Restorative …
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Difficult knowledge and uncomfortable pedagogies : student perceptions and experiences of teaching and learning in critical indigenous Australian studies
… and learning in two mandatory stand-alone Critical Indigenous Australian Studies subjects at an Australian university. The study proffers rare empirical insight into the student experience of teaching and learning about colonialism, racism, whiteness and privilege. It contributes to …
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White Faculty Members Resisting White Supremacy Culture in Service Learning and Community Engagement: A Critical Narrative Analysis
… supremacy culture (WSC; Okun, 1999) during a critical event (Mertova and Webster, 2019) in their service learning and community-engaged (SLCE) practice. There are many critiques of SLCE practices, especially due to the perpetuation of colonization (Hernandez, 2017), assumptions based in racism …
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“I think it's quite an insulting question, ‘what’s it like to be white?’... It's not a question that needs to be asked”: An exploration of how white trainee counsellors in South Wales understand ‘race’, racism, and whiteness.
… in South Wales understand ‘race’, racism and whiteness. Research that considers understanding of ‘race’, racism and whiteness in a counselling context in South Wales has not been found elsewhere and addresses a gap in knowledge. The literature review found that white people were unaware of …
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