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Race Talk in White Schools Mara Simon

Race Talk in White Schools By Mara Simon

Race Talk in White Schools by Mara Simon


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Race Talk in White Schools: Re-Centering Teachers of Color by Mara Simon

Racial segregation and desegregation practices have deeply impacted the teacher pipeline, contributing to historical assumptions of teaching as a white profession. The Brown vs Board of Education rulings, while couched within a narrative of social progress, have instead been a step backwards for racial equity in schools. The authors use Critical Race Theory and Critical Whiteness Studies to demonstrate how teachers of color are racialized through the centering of whiteness in schools, minoritized in contrast to their white counterparts, and de-centered through performativities of race and whiteness as ideologies. The authors share small teaching episodes from eight Black, Latina, and Asian female teachers who all work in predominantly white schools, illuminating the ways the teachers resisted discourses of whiteness by enacting agency within their teaching contexts. From the historical backdrop of racism and segregation to theoretical underpinnings, the counterstories of the teachers presented in this book indicate how teachers might utilize their personal experiences of marginalization to problematize invisible racism, colorblindness, and white neutrality, moving towards an empowered sense of self. The collective narrative highlights the potential for culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogies to support teachers of color in negotiating whiteness and working for social justice.

About Mara Simon

Mara Simon is assistant professor of physical education and health education at Springfield College.

Laura Azzarito is associate professor of physical culture and education at the Teachers College of Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Whiteness and other teachers: An historical view

Chapter 2: Colorblindness and the need for Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS) in education

Chapter 3: Critical Race Theory to develop a critical consciousness: Understanding racism as structure

Chapter 4: Eye-opening...: Bearing witness to whiteness in school

Chapter 5: Feeling race: Embracing culturally relevant, sustaining, and disrupting pedagogies

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NLS9781498598781
9781498598781
1498598781
Race Talk in White Schools: Re-Centering Teachers of Color by Mara Simon
New
Paperback
Lexington Books
2022-09-15
160
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