Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness

Virginia Lea is Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. She received her Ph.D. in social and cultural studies in education from the University of California, Berkeley. Her published work with Peter Lang includes Undoing Whiteness in the Classroom: Critical Educultural Teaching Approaches for Social Justice Activism, co-edited with Erma Jean Sims (2008), and Constructing Critical Consciousness: Narratives that Unmask Hegemony, and Ideas for Creating Greater Equity in Education (2014). Virginia tries to live an active commitment to social justice. She sees her scholarship, research, teaching, and The Hegemony Project, which she co-directs (www. thehegemonyproject.org), as means of developing greater understanding about how cultural hegemony works to create and reproduce socioeconomic, cultural and educational inequities in our time; and to take social action for equitable social change. Virginia also co-directs the nonprofit The Educultural Foundation with her partner, Babatunde Lea.Darren E. Lund is Professor in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, where his research examines social justice activism in schools, communities, and professional education programs. Darren co-founded the Service-Learning Program for Pre-Service Teachers, winner of the national 2012 Award of Excellence in Education from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation. He is the Principal Investigator of a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) research project entitled, "Teacher Education for Social Justice: Enhancing Community-Engaged collaboration and Cultural Humility Through Critical Service-Learning." Darren has been recognized with a number of awards, including the Alberta Teachers’ Association’s 2015 Educational Research Award, the inaugural 2013 Alberta Hate Crimes Awareness Award, the 2012 Scholar-Activist Award from the American Educational Research Association (Critical Educators for Social Justice), and was named a Reader’s Digest National Leader in Education. Before entering academia, Darren was a high school teacher, and formed the award-winning Students and Teachers Opposing Prejudice (STOP) program.Paul R. Carr is Professor in the Department of Education at the Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada, and is also the Chair-holder of the UNESCO Chair in Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education (DCMÉT). His research is broadly concerned with political sociology, with specific threads related to democracy, media literacy, peace studies, intercultural relations, and transformative change in education. He has sixteen co-edited books and an award-winning, single-author book (Does Your Vote Count? Democracy and Critical Pedagogy). He is the Principal Investigator of two Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) research projects entitled, respectively, Democracy, Political Literacy and Transformative Education, and Social Media, Citizen Participation and Education. Before entering academia, he was a Senior Policy Advisor in the Ontario Ministry of Education, working on equity and social issues.

“In this time of bolstered white supremacy locally and throughout the world, I can imagine few interventions as timely and urgent as «Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness». Lea, Lund, and Carr have assembled a stunning range of writings—from both earlier and contemporary scholars—who lay bare the endemic and enduring nature of whiteness as normative ideology, its damage to educational and social justice, and our role in dismantling and reimagining race. Packed with troubling insights, this book is one I must read again. Read and reread this book and answer its call to action.”Kevin Kumashiro, Author of «Against Common Sense»; former Dean of the School of Education, University of San Francisco

• 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.