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Scholarship March 29, 2017

Revisiting The Great White North?: Reframing Whiteness, Privilege, and Identity in Education (Second Edition)

The Wabash Center

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Author
Lund, Darren E.; and Carr, Paul R., eds.
Publisher
Sense Publishers, The Netherlands
ISBN
9789462098671
Table of Contents
Foreword to the Second Edition (2014)
Foreword (2007) (George J. Sefa Dei)
Acknowledgements (2014)
Acknowledgements (2007)
Introduction: Reframing Whiteness (2014) (Darren E. Lund & Paul R. Carr)

Section 1: Conceptualizing Whiteness
ch. 1 Exploring the Authority of Whiteness in Education: An Auto-Ethnographic Journey (Kathelln S. Berry)
ch. 2 Reframing: Kathleen S. Berry (2014)
ch. 3 Before I Was White I Was Presbyterian (Tim McCaskell)
ch. 4 Reframing: Tim McCaskell (2014)
ch. 5 Being White and Being Right: Critiquing Individual and Collective Privilege (James Frideres)
ch. 6 Reframing: James Frideres (2014)

Section 2: Whiteness and Second Peoples
ch. 7 Going Native: A White Guy’s Experience Teaching in an Aboriginal Context (Herbert C. Northcott)
ch. 8 Reframing: Herbert C. Northcott (2014)
ch. 9 On Indigenous Academia: The Hermeneutics of Indigenous Western Institutional Participation - Eleven Theorems (2014) (Tracey Lindberg)
ch. 10 “Don’t Blame Me for What My Ancestors Did”: Understanding the Impact of Collective White Guilt (Julie Caouette and Donald M. Taylor)
ch. 11 Reframing: Julie Caouette & Donald M. Taylor (2014)

Section 3: Developing and De-Constructing White Identity
ch. 12 Development of Anti-Racist White Identity in Canadian Educational Counsellors (Christine Wihak)
ch. 13 Reframing: Christine Wihak (2014)
ch. 14 “Radical Stuff”: Starting a Conversation about Racial Identity and White Privilege (Susan A. Tilley and Kelly D. Powick)
ch. 15 Reframing: Susan A. Tilley & Kelly D. Powick (2014)
ch. 16 Who Can/Should Do This Work? The Colour of Critique (Carl E. James)
ch. 17. Reframing: Carl E. James (2014)

Section 4: Learning, Teaching, and Whiteness
ch. 18 The Parents of Baywoods: Intersections between Whiteness and Jewish Ethnicity (Cynthia Levine-Rasky)
ch. 19 Reframing: Cynthia Levine-Rasky
ch. 20 Re-inscribing Whiteness through Progressive Constructions of “the Problem” in Anti-Racist Education (Lisa Comeau)
ch. 21 Reframing: Lisa Comeau (2014)
ch. 22 Discourses on Race and “White Privilege” in the Next Generation of Teachers (R. Patrick Solomon and Beverly-Jean M. Daniel)
ch. 23 Reframing: Beverly-Jean M. Daniel (2014)
ch. 24 White Female Teachers and Technology in Education: Reproducing the Status Quo (Brad J. Portfilio)
ch. 25 Reframing: Brad J. Porfilio (2014)

Section 5: The Institutional Merit of Whiteness
ch. 26 Whiteness and Philosophy: Imagining Non-White Philosophy in Schools (Laura Mae Lindo)
ch. 27 Reframing: Laura Mae Lindo (2014)
ch. 28 De-Centering Normal: Negotiating Whiteness as White School Administrators in a Diverse School Community (Debbie Donsky and Matt Champion)
ch. 29 Reframing: Debbie Donsky and Matt Champion (2014)
ch. 30 “A Group That Plays Together Stays Together”: Tracing a Story of Racial Violence (Gulzar R. Charonia)
ch. 31 Reframing: Gulzar R. Charania (2014)
ch. 32 The Whiteness of Educational Policymaking (Paul R. Carr)
ch. 33 Reframing: Paul R. Carr (2014)
ch. 34 A Chronic Identity Intoxication Syndrome: Whiteness as Seen by an African-Canadian Francophone Woman (2014) (Gina Thésée)
ch. 35 Additional Whiteness Resources (2014)

Biographies (2014)
Index
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Abstract: Returning seven years later to their original pieces from this landmark book, over 20 leading scholars and activists revisit and reframe their rich contributions to a burgeoning scholarship on Whiteness. With new reflective writings for each chapter, and valuable sections on relevant readings and resources, this volume refreshes and enhances the first text to pay critical and sustained attention to Whiteness in education, with implications far beyond national borders. Contributors include George Sefa Dei, Tracey Lindberg, Carl James, Cynthia Levine-Rasky, and the late Patrick Solomon. Courageously examining diverse perspectives, contexts, and institutional practices, contributors to this volume dismantle the underpinnings of inequitable power relations, privilege, and marginalization. The book’s relevance extends to those in a range of settings, with abundant and poignant lessons for enhancing and understanding transformative social justice work in education.

Revisiting The Great White North? offers terrific grist for examining the persistence of Whiteness even as it shape-shifts. Chapters are comprehensive, theoretically rich, and anchored in personal experience. Authors’ reflections on the seven years since publication of the first edition of this book complexify how we understand Whiteness, while simultaneously driving home the need not only to grapple with it, but to work against it. (From Publisher)