Full Description
This book employs a narrative approach to recount and interpret the story of an innovative teaching and learning project about whiteness. By offering a first-hand description of a nationally-recognized, high school-based Youth Participatory Action Research project—The Whiteness Project—this book draws out the conflicts and complexities at the core of white students' racial identities. Critical of the essentializing frameworks traditionally given to address white privilege, this volume advances a distinctive and theoretically robust account of 'second-wave critical whiteness pedagogy'.
Contents
Introduction: Growing Up White
Chapter One: Whiteness and Teaching and Learning about Whiteness
Chapter Two: The Fall - Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)
Chapter Three: The Winter - Playbuilding
Chapter Four: The Spring - Producing the Play
Chapter Five: Aftermath - Toward a Second Wave of Critical Whiteness Pedagogy
Conclusion: White People Growing Up
Appendices
