Full Description
Excavating Whiteness: How White Teachers' Histories, Communities, and Relationships Frame Their Understandings about Race follows a group of sixteen teachers, fourteen White, one African American, and one Native American teacher as they participated in a university summer course centered on examining the role of race in education. The voices and experiences of the teachers powerfully demonstrate their various views and stages of racial identity development. The teachers' interactions illustrate the difficulties they encountered, how they engaged with each other, and how and why they retreated from learning opportunities due their past, their relationships within previous learning communities, and within the newly created learning community of the course. Excavating Whiteness follows the story of a group of teachers working together to understand why race matters in their lives as educators. Their individual journeys through the course are representative of the myriad of ways White teachers respond to race and can provide others with insights into the nuanced ways race and identity are bound by personal history, experiences, and beliefs.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Opportunities for Learning About Race
Chapter 2: Surface Explorations
Chapter 3: Sharing the Artifacts of Community Intersections
Chapter 4: Establishing Common Ground Through Disequilibrium
Chapter 5: Archeological Tools
Chapter 6: Examining the Ruins: Unearthing Whiteness
Chapter 7: Cataloging Artifacts
Chapter 8: Excavating the Layered Sediment of the Self
Chapter 9: Rising from the Ruins
Appendix
References
About the Authors
