White Educators Negotiating Complicity

Roadblocks Paved with Good Intentions

Barbara Applebaum

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978750319
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

While there is a proliferation of research on white educators who teach courses around anti-racism, White Educators Negotiating Complicity: Roadblocks Paved with Good Intentions focuses on white educators who teach about whiteness to racially diverse groups of students, and who acknowledge and attempt to negotiate their complicity in systemic injustice. Scholars continue to remind white people of the paradox through which their endeavors to disrupt systemic white supremacy often reproduce it. In this book, Barbara Applebaum explores what it means to teach against whiteness while living that paradox.

Rather than an empirical study, this book offers insights from recent scholarship surrounding critical whiteness and epistemic injustice and applies them to some of the most trenchant challenges that white educators face while trying to teach about whiteness to racially diverse groups of students. Introducing the concept of a vigilantly vulnerable and informed humility, Applebaum both illuminates what theory can tell us about praxis and offers guidance for white educators in their attempts to negotiate the effects of white complicity on their pedagogy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: White Complicity
• Chapter 2: The Entangled Armor of White Complicity: Innocence and Ignorance
• Chapter 3: Toward a Vigilantly Vulnerable Informed Humility
• Chapter 4: When White Educators Are Part of the Problem
• Chapter 5: Cultivating a Vigilantly Vulnerable Informed Humility
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author