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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"critical whiteness studies"”.
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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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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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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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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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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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Applying a critical race framework towards anti-racist art teacher education
… Through my own research and cross-disciplinary 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 …
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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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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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Teacher Education Program Recruitment and Admissions: A Multiple Case Study of Three Minority-Serving Institutions in California
… workforce, this qualitative multiple case study critically examined the recruitment and admission of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) to teacher education programs (TEP) in three Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) in California. Specifically, this research explored the racialized …
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A Phenomenological Exploration of the Hegemonic Insider-Outsider in Teacher Education
… teachers to learn and practice taking critical perspectives and use reflection for their future teaching practice (McDonald & Zeichner, 2009). Despite preservice teachers’ interest and effort in engaging with racially and culturally just educational work, their approaches often result …
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Whiteness and the Return of the "Black Body"
… body as a site of lived historicity vis-á-vis whiteness as the transcendental signified or as that which takes itself to be "unconditioned." I theorize how the Black body, under the power of the white gaze, which is linked to cultural, symbolic, and material power, undergoes what I refer to as …
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The Black Body in Arctic Space: Revisioning Racialised Landscapes in the Films of John Akomfrah and Isaac Julien
… and Julien’s films for the development of critical whiteness studies and is driven by the following key questions: what do the films reveal for ideas of northernness, remote landscapes of exclusion and constructed hierarchies of racial whiteness through the colonial encounter; is the …
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Transforming Whiteness: Exploring Transformation at Stellenbosch University
… in relation to these two levels is grounded in Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS), to try and illuminate novel areas of interest leading to nuanced, prospective, discussion. Using CRT, some of SU’s institutional attempts to transform are examined. A focus is placed …
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The uncomfortable chair of the colonial past and racist present an effective approach to white discomfort in the Netherlands
… of ‘white innocence' in understanding Dutch whiteness – the false conception of (progressive) Dutch white people that the Netherlands and they themselves are innocent with regard to racism. This myth of innocence is constructed on a collective national level. International literature on white …
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Whiteness and exclusion: An ethnography of the racialised discourse of the UK’s Widening Participation agenda
… of race and education policy, the study draws on critical race theory, critical whiteness studies and Foucauldian conceptualisations of discourse. The empirical research ‘followed’ the discursive practices – symbolic and material – of widening participation policy as it ‘travelled’ across multiple …
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European identity in the Aotearoa New Zealand census
Although the literature on ethnicity is vast, studies have typically focused on minority groups, with white majorities, including Europeans in Aotearoa New Zealand, surprisingly absent. Demographic changes, however, and the decline of majorities, are altering politics and making white ethnicity …
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Why Blame Me? Interpreting Counselor Student Resistance to Racially Themed Course Content as Complicity with White Racial Hegemony
… manifestations of student resistance in light of critical whiteness studies and social dominance theory, I found that beliefs underlying students' harm-related appraisals and resulting coping actions connected most readily to behavior that reinforces White racial hegemony. The particular …
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