Becoming and Unbecoming White: Owning and Disowning : A Radical Identity

by Clark, Christine

• ISBN13: 9780897896214
• ISBN10: 0897896211
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-28
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

The authors of the narrative chapters represented in this volume have in common that they are dedicated to the realization of a critical, multicultural, democratic society. Individually, they are female and male, from diverse ethnicities, socio-economic class backgrounds, first language groups, religious and spiritual affiliations, and sexual orientations. They are professors of education, psychology, sociology, and communication as well as community activists. The stories that they share reveal the history of racism in this country over a fifty year period beginning in the late 1930s and continuing into the early 1980s. The stories are most diverse, and share what it was like growing up White during and after Jim Crow segregation, the Civil Rights Movement, and busing and "integration." Thus, there is a history here of our country's racism yesterday and today. Inviting students to experience this history may encourage them to further explore its ongoing manifestations.

Author Biography

CHRISTINE CLARK is Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, New Mexico State University.JAMES O'DONNELL is Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, New Mexico State University.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	xi
Henry A. Giroux
Acknowledgments	xv
Rearticulating a Racial Identity: Creating Oppositional Spaces to Fight for Equality and Social Justice	1	(9)
Christine Clark
James O'Donnell
Unthinking Whiteness, Rethinking Democracy: Critical Citizenship in Gringolandia	10	(46)
Peter McLaren
Lighting Candles in the Dark: One Black Woman's Response to White Antiracist Narratives	56	(8)
Beverly Daniel Tatum
Subverting Racism from Within: Linking White Identity to Activism	64	(14)
Becky Thompson
Transforming Received Categories: Discovering Cross-Border Identities and Other Subversive Activities	78	(14)
David Wellman
The Secret: White Lies Are Never Little	92	(19)
Christine Clark
Becoming White: How I Got Over	111	(11)
Arnold Cooper
Seeing Things As They Are	122	(15)
Carolyn O'Grady
The Recollections of a Recovering Racist	137	(13)
James O'Donnell
What Could a White Girl from South Boston Possibly Know about Racism? Reflections of a Social Justice Educator	150	(10)
Mary M. Gannon
If You're Not Standing in This Line, You're Standing in the Wrong Line	160	(18)
G. Pritchy Smith
Building Blocks: My Journey Toward White Racial Awareness	178	(18)
Patti DeRosa
``Justice, Justice Shalt Thou Do!''	196	(16)
Elizabeth Aaronsohn
White Man Dancing: A Story of Personal Transformation	212	(12)
Gary R. Howard
Rewriting the Discourse of Racial Identity: Toward a Pedagogy and Politics of Whiteness	224	(29)
Henry A. Giroux
Bibliography	253	(16)
Index	269	(12)
About the Editors and Contributors	281