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Facilitating antiracist sessions for white parents: self-study on the challenges to and perpetuations of whiteness.
- Source :
- Whiteness & Education; May2024, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p142-160, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
-
Abstract
- Educational transformation of communities is often focused on school-based initiatives, but parenting offers forth a powerful site for antiracist change. This self-study details how I, a White parent and antiracist teacher educator, both challenged and perpetuated whiteness while facilitating antiracist parenting sessions for White parents. Using critical whiteness studies, I analyse one particular emotional 'hot point' where a participant abruptly exited a virtual session. My findings suggest that prior to the incident I challenge race-evasiveness, concepts of goodness and innocence, passive 'non-racism', individualism, and the discourse norms of whiteness. However, after the 'hot point', I perpetuated whiteness in ways that were deeply connected to the same challenges I had just made, highlighting some of the difficulties White people have in doing antiracist work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- AUTODIDACTICISM
PARENTS
TEACHER educators
WHITE people
INDIVIDUALISM
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23793406
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Whiteness & Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176073788
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/23793406.2023.2185535