Identifying Race and Transforming Whiteness in the Classroom

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Identifying Race and Transforming Whiteness in the Classroom is written by Virginia Lea and published by Peter Lang. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0820470686 (ISBN 10) and 9780820470689 (ISBN 13).

As educators, how do we challenge and interrupt the social construction of whiteness in ourselves, in the classroom, in schools, and in the wider society? Coming from diverse backgrounds, the contributors in this volume draw on their own well-examined experiences of race, racism, and whiteness in developing effective antiracist pedagogies and classroom activities that interrupt and contest whiteness. They have explored their own lives from the selective position of their own memories and have traced the ways in which their assumptions - which they use to mediate and interpret the world around them - have been constituted by public ideological forces. They have collaborated with others in building alternative pedagogies and support systems, enabling them to teach, and at the same time, reflect on the assumptions behind and the effects of their teaching. The result is the work collected here.