Whiteness, Pedagogy, and Youth in America

Critical Whiteness Studies in the Classroom

Samuel Jaye Tanner

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781138571945
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351333412
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This book employs a narrative approach to recount and interpret the story of an innovative teaching and learning project about whiteness. By offering a first-hand description of a nationally-recognized, high school-based Youth Participatory Action Research project—The Whiteness Project—this book draws out the conflicts and complexities at the core of white students' racial identities. Critical of the essentializing frameworks traditionally given to address white privilege, this volume advances a distinctive and theoretically robust account of 'second-wave critical whiteness pedagogy'.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Growing Up White
• 1 Whiteness and Teaching and Learning About Whiteness
• 2 The Fall—Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)
• 3 The Winter—Playbuilding
• 4 The Spring—Producing the Play
• 5 Aftermath—Toward a Second Wave of Critical Whiteness Pedagogy
• Conclusion: White People Growing Up
• Index