Series:

Philosophy of Race

2 total works

Cover of White Self-Criticality Beyond Anti-Racism
White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism powerfully emphasizes the significance of humility, vulnerability, anxiety, questions of complicity, and how being a "good white" is implicated in racial injustice. This collection sets a new precedent for critical race scholarship and critical whiteness studies to take into consideration what it means specifically to be a white problem rather than simply restrict scholarship to the problem of white privilege and white normative invisibility. Ultimately, the text challenges the contemporary rhetoric of a color-blind or color-evasive world in a discourse that is critically engaging and sophisticated, accessible, and persuasive.

Cover of White Educators Negotiating Complicity

While there is a proliferation of research studying white educators who teach courses around anti-racism, White Educators Negotiating Complicity: Roadblocks Paved with Good Intentions focuses on white educators who teach about whiteness to a racially diverse group of students and who acknowledge and attempt to negotiate their complicity in systemic injustice. Scholars continue to remind white people of a paradox that in their endeavors to disrupt systemic white supremacy, they often reproduce it. Barbara Applebaum explores what it means to teach against whiteness while living that paradox.

Rather than an empirical study, this book applies insights from the recent scholarship in critical whiteness studies and around epistemic injustice to some of the most trenchant challenges that white educators face while trying to teach about whiteness to a racially diverse group of students. Applebaum illuminates what theory can tell us about praxis and introduces the concept of a vigilantly, vulnerable informed humility that can offer guidance for white educators in their attempts to negotiate the effects of white complicity on their pedagogy.