Excavating Whiteness

How White Teachers’ Histories, Communities, and Relationships Frame Their Understandings about Race

Julie L. Pennington, Cynthia H. Brock, Elavie Ndura

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216338468
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Inclusive Education

Excavating Whiteness: How White Teachers' Histories, Communities, and Relationships Frame Their Understandings about Race follows a group of sixteen teachers, fourteen White, one African American, and one Native American teacher as they participated in a university summer course centered on examining the role of race in education. The voices and experiences of the teachers powerfully demonstrate their various views and stages of racial identity development. The teachers' interactions illustrate the difficulties they encountered, how they engaged with each other, and how and why they retreated from learning opportunities due their past, their relationships within previous learning communities, and within the newly created learning community of the course. Excavating Whiteness follows the story of a group of teachers working together to understand why race matters in their lives as educators. Their individual journeys through the course are representative of the myriad of ways White teachers respond to race and can provide others with insights into the nuanced ways race and identity are bound by personal history, experiences, and beliefs.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Opportunities for Learning about Race
• Chapter 2: Surface Explorations
• Chapter 3: Sharing the Artifacts of Community Intersections
• Chapter 4: Establishing Common Ground through Disequilibrium
• Chapter 5: Archeological Tools
• Chapter 6: Examining the Ruins: Unearthing Whiteness
• Chapter 7: Cataloging Artifacts
• Chapter 8: Excavating the Layered Sediment of the Self
• Chapter 9: Rising from the Ruins
• Appendix
• References
• Index
• About the Authors