The critical study of whiteness has influenced antiracist pedagogy andresearch. A volatile area of study in terms of the recentering of whitediscourses and the ... » 

The critical study of whiteness has influenced antiracist pedagogy andresearch. A volatile area of study in terms of the recentering of whitediscourses and the appropriation of the writings of black scholars confrontingwhiteness has become a controversial but potentially radical way of approachingeducational issues. In this pioneering volume critical whiteness studies isapplied in the United Kingdom in a variety of educational contexts. Althoughwhiteness is considered to be a system of oppression that benefits whitestudents and teachers in educational arenas it is not necessarily monolithic.Whiteness is flexible and inflected by class to produce new whitenessesthat are no less racist in intent or practice. Through the use of ethnographicbiographical and documentary research how whiteness works in education isrevealed. The ways in which working class whites are represented as whitetrash or chav the subtle actions of white middle class learners to reducediversity in adult education and the premodern qualities of white ruling classschooling are used to highlight both divergence and congruence in the racialformation of whiteness. Policy issues are also considered in particular themerits of regulating hate speech in universities and the ways in which racistcivil defence pedagogies have become embedded in educational and homelandsecurity policies. However this book does not just consider the practices ofwhiteness but also how practitioners might consider critical whiteness studiesin antiracist practice. It is concerned with not only identifying how whitesupremacy continues to dominate educational discourse and practice but how itcan be resisted. TOCAcknowledgements. Preface.1. From Troubling Whiteness toTreason to Whiteness. Part I 2. How the White Working Class became Chav.3. Class and Race Strategies in Adult Education. 4. Smells like White Spirit.Part II 5. Take the Skinheads Bowling?. 6. Homeland Insecurity. 7. Towards aTrash Crit. 8. Concluding Remarks. References. Index. «