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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"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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Reconstructing whiteness in Ambrose Bierce
… and satirist Ambrose Bierce through the lens of whiteness studies. It compares Bierce's work to the popular literature. Its primary investigation is into the ideological project of white-identity and national reunion as it is played out in sentimentalist war memoirs and plantation romances that …
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Whiteness Interrupted: Examining the Impact of Racialized Space on White Racial Identity
… 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 upon the …
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The Impact of Arts Education Programmes on Anti-Racist School Practice in the South West of England
… take a critical race theory approach, drawing on Whiteness studies, to explore White teachers' and school students’ assumptions about racism and education. Secondly, using a critical pedagogy framework, I investigate learning through anti-racist arts projects. The fieldwork is ethnographically …
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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
… 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 their way …
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Racing Discourses: Constructions and Negotiations Students Make About Race
… 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 illuminates how colorblind …
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¿De Dónde Eres?: The Construction of U.S. and Immigrant Culture and Identity in the ESL Adult Education Setting
… theory, CRT, LatCrit, language and power, and Whiteness studies. As the findings of the research show, the narratives constructed through language, interaction, and institutionalized practices in the ESL setting reproduced the ideology of the American Dream. The American Dream emerged as the …
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Identifying and addressing white supremacy in social work education
… 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 framework …
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Running Solo: Indigenous Teacher Identity in Roman Catholic Education
… Tribal Critical Race Theory (TribalCrit), and whiteness studies the inquiry set out to trouble the question; how does Indigenous teacher identity exist in Roman Catholic education? Following a hybrid methodology that allied critical ethnography and Indigenous methodology, three salient themes …
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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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Classwork: Examining the Practices, Socialization, and Identities of Elementary School Teachers With Working Class Origins Through Their Oral Histories
… lenses of feminist theory, Critical Race Theory, Whiteness Studies, and Critical Pedagogies. Participants discussed early awarenesses of material disparities, exclusion from dominant discourse, lack of cultural capital, importance of informal mentorships, institutional indifference, surviving in …
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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
… maintained by the social conditioning of Whiteness, facilitates an environment of racial ignorance and insignificance, leaving most painfully oblivious to the damaging complexities of racism in contemporary American society. The purpose of this qualitative study is to illuminate the …
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Weisse Weiblichkeiten: Afrika, deutschsprachige Schriftstellerinnen und ihre (post-)koloniale Verortung von Geschlecht
… The project contributes to the field of critical whiteness studies and offers a new angle within the broader field of German postcolonial studies.
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Reality Bites? The Cultural Politics of Generation X and Youthful White Masculinities in Sport and Popular Culture in 1990s America
… grounded in the ideas of the British cultural studies tradition and the relatively new field of whiteness studies."
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“It's not voluntourism”: unpacking young people's narrative claims to authenticity and differentiation in the international volunteer experience
… perspective of Erving Goffman and the field of whiteness studies. I further situate findings within the context of late or liquid modernity.
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Appalachian Regionalism: Reimagining Modernism on the Periphery of American Art
… regionalism, craft, folk art, critical race and whiteness studies, Marxist theory, and ecocriticism. In the wake of revisionist histories that seek to be inclusive to marginalized peoples and misunderstood cultures, this project explores the importance of Appalachian regionalism and makes the …
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White Faculty Members Resisting White Supremacy Culture in Service Learning and Community Engagement: A Critical Narrative Analysis
… based in racism and classism (Green, 2003), Whiteness (Applebaum, 2016; Leonardo, 2002) and characteristics of white supremacy culture (Okun, 1999). These topics have received more attention over the past decade, but there is still significantly less research on actions taken by SLCE faculty …
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The Ambivalence of Altruism: White Canadian Women in International Development in East Africa
… of transnational feminism and critical race and whiteness studies, I draw from primary data collected onsite from September-December 2015 and May-June 2016, including twenty-one semi-structured in-depth formal interviews with self-identified white women Canadian development workers living and …
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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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