Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness

Whiteness is a narrative. It is the privileged dimension of the complex story of "race" that was, and continues to be, seminal in shaping the socio-economic structure and cultural climate of the United States and other Western nations. Without acknowledging this story, it is impossible to understand fully the current political and social contexts in which we live. Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness explores multiple analyses of whiteness, drawing on both past and current key sources to tell the story in a more comprehensive way. This book features both iconic essays that address the social construction of whiteness and critical resistance as well as excellent new critical perspectives.

Figures - Acknowledgements - Virginia Lea/Darren E. Lund/Paul R. Carr: Introduction: Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness - Section I: The Social Construction of Whiteness and Critical Resistance - Toni Morrison: Romancing the Shadow Cheryl L. Harris: Whiteness as Property - D. R. Roediger: The Prehistory of the White Worker: Settler Colonialism, Race and Republicanismbefore 1800 - G. M. Frederickson: Slavery and Race: The Southern Dilemma - T. W. Allen: The Invention of the White Race-And the Ordeal of America - Trina Grillo/Stephanie M. Wildman: Obscuring the Importance of Race: The Implication of Making Comparisons Between Racism and Sexism (Or Other -isms) - Heather W. Hackman/Susan Raffo: More than Skin Deep: Understanding the Deep Sources of White Resistance and Key Tools for Addressing It - Kelly E. Maxwell: Deconstructing Whiteness: Discovering the Water - Darren E. Lund/Paul R. Carr: Disrupting Denial and White Privilege in Teacher Education - Virginia Lea/Erma Jean Sims: Imaging Whiteness Hegemony in the Classroom: Undoing Oppressive Practice and Inspiring Social Justice Activism - Gina Thésée: A Chronic Identity Intoxication Syndrome: Whiteness as Seen by an African-Canadian-Francophone Woman - Robin DiAngelo: Nothing to Add: A Challenge to White Silence in Racial Discussions - Darren Chetty: The Elephant in the Room: Picturebooks, Philosophy for Children and Racism - Section II: New Critical Perspectives on Whiteness - Robin DiAngelo: Stop Telling that Story! Danger Discourse and the White Racial Frame - Cynthia Levine-Rasky: Whiteness and Intersectionality Theory - Melissa Winchell: No Place Like Home? Reconceptualizing Whiteness as Place¿Space Within Teacher Education - Geneva L. Sarcedo/Cheryl E. Matias: Academic Advising and the Maintenance of Whiteness in Higher Education - Tana Mitchell: "We Acted Like a Genocidal Country When We Are Clearly Not One": Exploring the Complexities of Racialization and the Structuring Forces of Whiteness in a High School Classroom - Paul R. Carr: Whiteness and White Privilege: Problematizing Race and Racism in a "Color-blind" World, and in Education - John L. Hoben: A Hidden Door Outside the Law: Mapping Whiteness and Symbolic Alibis for Crimes Against First Nations People - Glen Parkes: An Epistemic Instruction Manual: The Blinding Whiteness of the Australian National Curriculum - Heather W. Hackman: How Did We Get Here? The Role of Whiteness (White Privilege and White Supremacy) in the Current Environmental Crisis - Nichole E. Grant: "Does It Make Me White If...?": Registers of Whiteness in the Blog "Stuff White People Like" - Contributors.