What does it mean to be white? : developing white racial literacy / Robin DiAngelo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DiAngelo, Robin, 1956-

Series:

Counterpoints: studies in the postmodern theory of education ; v. 398.

Counterpoints: studies in the postmodern theory of education ; v. 398

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White people--Race identity.

White people.

Race relations.

Racism.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2012]

Summary:

Prompted in part by her experience as a counselor in racial diversity training sessions, where she found most of her fellow white people to be racially illiterate, DiAngelo (education, Westfield State U.) here seeks to show how the social construct of race operates in the United States between whites and people of color and how whiteness shapes the racial identities and perspectives of white people. She begins with a discussion of the importance of the issue in education. She then proceeds to discuss the ways in which socialization shapes the identities and perspectives of all people, the elements of societal oppression, the historical development of race as a social construct, the conceptualization of racism as an embedded system of unequal power in which all are complicit regardless of intentions, contemporary manifestations of "new" racism, the ways in which race shapes the lives of white people, ways in which racism is obscured for and denied by whites, issues of intersecting identities (such as race and class), and the ways in which racism manifests for different racial groups. She concludes with a discussion of the basic tenets of antiracist education. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Dedication

Introduction

Race in education

Unique challengesof race education

Socialization

Defining terms

The cycle of oppression

What is race?

What is racism?

"New" racism

How race shapes the lives of white people

What makes racism so hard for whites to see?

Intersecting identities : the example of class

Common patterns ofwell-intentioned white people

Popular white narratives that deny racism

A note on white silence

Racism and specificracial groups

Antiracist education and the road ahead

Appendix

Antiracist checklist

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1433111152

9781433111167

1433111160

9781433111150

9781453908051

1453908056

OCLC:

779472213

Publisher Number:

99949388313