Dismantling White Privilege: Pedagogy, Politics, and Whiteness

by Nelson M. Rodriguez (Editor), Leila E. Villaverde (Editor)

Dismantling White Privilege critically interrogates whiteness across contexts, from the experiential level to the different ways in which whiteness is deployed in contemporary cultural politics. The editors and contributors contend that �marking� whiteness is an important step in dismantling white privilege within the context of concerns for equity and social justice. Significant to this anthology is linking analyses of whiteness to the discourse of critical pedagogy, especially around constructing �pedagogies of whiteness�. Investigating whiteness in its many manifestations, Dismantling White Privilege represents a necessary advance concerning the intersection among race, culture, and pedagogy.

207 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2000

Reviews

[lia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Argh! This book! Some of it is great, some of it is opressively unreadable in an academic twenty dollar word kind of way. Plus, it came out in 2000, so the chapter "Virtual shades of pale: Educational technologies & the electronic 'other'" is sadly out of date--using references from the early nineties and earlier. The greatest part to me so far is how much it addresses academia, and what my role as a teacher or educator or librarian means. Favorite chapters: Where's my body and what's on it? Theoretical twists on notions of race and sexuality" and "The blues: Breaking the psychological chains of controlling images" which contains a 'suggested blues for the classroom' section. Totally reccomended, but please realize each chapter is written by a different person, so don't stop if the first thing you read makes you feel like you have a mouth full of marbles.