num_pages: 356
description: Witnessing Whiteness invites educators to consider what it means to be white describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues and identifies the detrimental effect of avoiding race on cross-race collaborations. The author illustrates how racial discomfort leads white educators toward ineffective teaching pedagogy and poor relationships with students and colleagues of color. Questioning the implications our history has for educational institutions school reform efforts and diversity initiatives this book considers political economic socio-cultural and legal histories that shaped the meanings associated with whiteness. Drawing on dialogue with well-known figures within education race and multicultural work the book offers intimate personal stories of cross-race friendships that address both how a deep understanding of whiteness supports cross-race collaboration and the long-term nature of the work of excising racism from the deep psyche.Concluding chapters offer practical information on building knowledge skills capacities and communities that support anti-racism practices a hopeful look at our collective future and a discussion of how to create a culture of witnessing educators who support allies for social and racial justice.
language: English
title: WITNESSING WHITENESS:FIRST STEPS TOWARD: First Steps Toward an Antiracist Practice and Culture
publisher: R&L Education