Whiteness, Pedagogy, Performance Dis/Placing Race

by Cooks, Leda M.; Simpson, Jennifer S.; Cooks, Leda; Bates, Benjamin R.; Cantu, Rosalinda; Fellows, Kelli Lynn; González, Alberto; Gonzalez, Jo Beth; Groscurth, Christopher R.; Harris, Tina M.; Heuman, Amy N.; Jackson, Ronald L., II; Jeffries, Tammy; Malhot

• ISBN13: 9780739114636
• ISBN10: 0739114638
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-26
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Whiteness, Pedagogy, Performance is unique in bringing together these three important topics in the context of communication teaching and scholarship with an eye toward interdisciplinary perspectives. In fourteen chapters, the leading whiteness scholars in the field of communication analyze the process of teaching and learning and the complicated intersections of whiteness, racial identity, and cross-racial dialogue. Toward these ends, these essays offer a variety of theoretical and practical approaches to the analysis of identity construction, racial privilege, and pedagogies toward equality and social justice. Above all, for teachers, students, and anyone interested in these issues, this book is a challenge to re-think the ways our curricula, texts, disciplinary boundaries, and moreover, how our interactions and performances re-inscribe racial privileges. Chapters provide innovative and accessible analyses of teaching and learning that will appeal to students, teachers, administrators, and anyone interested in how race works.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Existence and Contours of Performances of Whiteness
"We-The Militant Ones": A Collective Autoethnographic Analysis of Racial Standpoints, Locating Whiteness, and Student/Teacher Interaction	p. 27
Negotiating White Racial Identity in Multicultural Courses: A Model	p. 49
"It Is Not My Responsibility to Teach Culture!": White Graduate Teaching Assistants Negotiating Identity and Pedagogy	p. 67
Pedagogy of the Opaque: The Subject of Whiteness in Communication and Diversity Courses	p. 87
The "White Problem" in Intercultural Communication Research and Pedagogy	p. 111
Whiteness and Marked Performances of Identity
Staging Whiteness: Possibilities for Resistance and Revelation in a High School Production of Simply Maria, or, The American Dream	p. 141
Coloring Outside the Lines: Unmasking Performances of White Identity Through Role Play	p. 169
Race, Inversive Performance, and Public Pedagogy in White Man's Burden	p. 193
Performativity: Whiteness as Unmarked Norm
Performing Parody: Toward a Politics of Variation in Whiteness	p. 215
The Joke's on You?	p. 233
"Can't We Focus on the Good Stuff?": The Pedagogical Distance Between Comfort and Critique	p. 247
(Un)hinging Whiteness	p. 271
Conclusion	p. 299
Index	p. 317
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 321
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