Constructing Critical Consciousness: Narratives that Unmask Hegemony and Ideas for Creating Greater Equity in Education

by Virginia Lea (Editor)

Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness Reader aims to help us rethink "race," racism, and whiteness as narratives with deep roots in the past that contribute to the current social order, and function to reproduce the social hierarchy in which we live. The reader includes several brilliant iconic essays that address the social construction of whiteness and critical resistance, as well as excellent new critical perspectives. It is a compilation that offers new and intermediate readers in critical whiteness theory a valuable and diverse overview of the subject. It also serves as a refresher to those who have themselves contributed to this field.

232 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2014

Reviews

[Michele Mcconnell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lea provides a strong framework of critical consciousness via Freire and Foucault. In addition, she provides examples of classrooms that are making a difference.