White Educators Negotiating Complicity: Roadblocks Paved with Good Intentions

This book explores the challenges faced by white educators who teach about whiteness to a racially diverse group of students and attempts to negotiate their complicity in systemic injustice. It applies insights from critical whiteness studies and epistemic injustice to offer guidance for white educators in their attempts to navigate the effects of white complicity on their pedagogy.

Format: Hardback
Length: 156 pages
Publication date: 17 November 2021
Publisher: Lexington Books

White Educators Negotiating Complicity: Roadblocks Paved with Good Intentions is a groundbreaking book that delves into the complex dynamics of white educators who teach courses around anti-racism. It specifically focuses on white educators who engage with a racially diverse group of students and acknowledge their role in perpetuating systemic injustice. Scholars persistently emphasize a paradoxical reality that arises as white individuals strive to dismantle systemic white supremacy, inadvertently reproducing it in their efforts. In her insightful exploration, Barbara Applebaum delves into the meaning of teaching against whiteness while simultaneously living within this paradoxical context.

Rather than being a purely empirical study, this book draws upon insights from the recent scholarship in critical whiteness studies and epistemic injustice to address the pressing challenges faced by white educators when teaching about whiteness to a diverse student body. Applebaum sheds light on the theoretical implications that can guide praxis, introducing the concept of vigilant, vulnerable, and informed humility as a valuable guide for white educators in navigating the effects of white complicity on their teaching methodologies.

This book is a crucial contribution to the field of education, offering valuable insights and practical strategies for white educators to engage in meaningful dialogue and transformative learning with their students. By acknowledging their complicity in systemic injustice and striving for humility and self-awareness, white educators can play a vital role in creating more inclusive and equitable learning environments for all students.

Weight: 463g
Dimension: 227 x 160 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666904154