White Reign Deploying Whiteness in America

by Kincheloe, Joe L.; Steinberg, Shirley R.; Rodriguez, Nelson M.; Chennault, Ronald E.

• ISBN13: 9780312224752
• ISBN10: 0312224753
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Griffin

Summary

What does it mean to be white in today's society? Is whiteness an ethnicity? White Reign tackles questions like these by examining whiteness as a cultural concept that our society has created and exposing the systems that teach us how we think about race, including schools, media, and even cyberspace. These essays examine the construction of white identity and the possibility of reshaping whiteness in a progressive, nonracist manner, presenting a culture of whiteness that can be employed by educators, parents, and citizens concerned with racial justice.

Author Biography

Joe L. Koncheloe teaches at Brooklyn College and Penn State University and Shirley R. Steinberg teaches at Adelphi University. They are co-editors of Measured Lies. Nelson M. Rpdriguez teaches at Ohio University and Ronald E. Chennault teaches at DePaul University.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Theory and Pedagogy
Addressing the Crisis of Whiteness: Reconfiguring White Identity in a Pedagogy of Whiteness	p. 3
Emptying the Content of Whiteness: Toward an Understanding of the Relation between Whiteness and Pedagogy	p. 31
Whiteness Is ... The Struggle for Postcolonial Hybridity	p. 63
Is the Benign Really Harmless?: Deconstructing Some "Benign" Manifestations of Operationalized White Privilege	p. 77
America's Racial Unconscious: The Invisibility of Whiteness	p. 103
Youth, Memory Work, and the Racial Politics of Whiteness	p. 123
"They Got the Paradigm and Painted It White": Whiteness and Pedagogies of Positionality	p. 137
Educating the White Teacher as Ally	p. 159
Perspectives of the Curriculum of Whiteness	p. 177
Culture and Pedagogy
Developing a Media Literacy of Whiteness in Advertising	p. 193
Whitewashing "The Strip": The Construction of Whiteness in Las Vegas	p. 213
Okie Narratives: Agency and Whiteness	p. 229
Once Upon a Time When We Were White-- A Rather Grimm Fairy Tale	p. 245
Computer-Assisted Racism: Toward an Understanding of "Cyberwhiteness"	p. 269
The Learning Organization: Reproduction of Whiteness	p. 285
Giving Whiteness a Black Eye: An Interview with Michael Eric Dyson	p. 299
Afterword: Living with Anxiety: Race and the Renarration of Public Life	p. 329
Contributors	p. 343
Index	p. 349
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