Culture is not as biological as we think. It is a group’s knowledge production process that occurs as they understand and respond to their reality and create ways of being to survive or thrive in their everyday lives. Whiteness is also a culture; it was created by the educational, social, economic, spiritual, and political conditions that intentionally and methodically give power to racism. This is why Whiteness is so hard to remove from society. To abolish Whiteness means dismantling the structures that maintain its power and influence. If we, teacher educators, are going to ask teachers to
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