Identifying race and transforming whiteness in the classroom / editors, Virginia Lea, Judy Helfand.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lea, Virginia, 1947-

Helfand, Judy, 1945-

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 273.

Counterpoints, 1058-1634 ; v. 273

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in education.

White people--Race identity.

White people.

Critical pedagogy.

Physical Description:

viii, 290 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, [2004]

Contents:

Introduction: Parallel Journeys to Identifying Race and Transforming Whiteness in the Classroom / Judy Helfand, Virginia Lea 1

Part I. Cultural Forms of Whiteness

1. Teaching about Whiteness When You're Not White: A Filipina Educator's Experience / Leny Mendoza Strobel 29

2. Crossing Cultural Borders through Authentic Assessment of Classroom Discourse: A Freirean Approach / P. J. Hallam 47

3. "I Could Hear You If You Would Just Calm Down": Challenging Eurocentric Classroom Norms Through Passionate Discussions of Racial Oppression / Eileen O'Brien 68

4. Oreos and Bananas: Conversations on Whiteness / Elena Featherston, Jean Ishibashi 87

Part II. Rethinking Self, Rethinking Whiteness

5. Making Whiteness Visible in the Classroom / Laurie B. Lippin 109

6. Exploring and Challenging Whiteness and White Racism with White Preservice Teachers / Sherry Marx 132

7. Deconstructing Whiteness: Discovering the Water / Kelly E. Maxwell 153

Part III. Ways of Knowing

8. Teaching within the Circle: Methods for an American Indian Teaching and Learning Style, a Tribal Paradigm / Rosemary Christensen 171

9. Naming Race and Racism as a Problem in Schools / Pauline E. Bullen 192

10. When White Students Write About Being White: Challenging Whiteness in a Black Feminist Classroom / Gary Lemons 213

11. Reconceptualizing Our Classroom Practice: Notes from an Antiracist Educator / Grace Mathieson 235

12. The Xinachtli Project: Transforming Whiteness through Mythic Pedagogy / Carlos Aceves 257

Afterword: Taking It into the Classroom / Judy Helfand, Virginia Lea 279.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

0820470686

OCLC:

56068955