White Fatigue
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White Fatigue

Rethinking Resistance for Social Justice

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White Fatigue

Rethinking Resistance for Social Justice

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White Fatigue: Rethinking Resistance for Social Justice explores how, despite the pleas and research of critical scholars, what passes for multicultural education in schools is often promotion of human relations and tolerance rather than a sustained critical examination of how race and racism shape social, political, economic, and educational opportunities for various groups, both historically and currently. Simultaneously, our nation's social mores have changed over time and millions of White Americans find racism morally reprehensible. This book illustrates that despite that shift, it is not uncommon to experience White Americans—in classrooms and other spaces—struggling to understand how racism functions. This struggle is often talked about as White resistance, White guilt, and White fragility. White fatigue is an idea that helps explain and differentiate this struggle for better understanding among White folks who feel racism is wrong but do not yet have an understanding of how racism functions. White Fatigue: Rethinking Resistance for Social Justice ultimately argues that if we are to advance our national conversation on race, educators must be willing to define reactions to conversations about race with more nuances, lest we alienate potential allies, accomplices, and leaders in the fight against racial injustice.

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Publisher
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Year
2018
ISBN
9781433150272
Edition
1
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Education General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Foreword (Leslie David Burns)
  5. Introduction: Notes on My Relationship With White Folks
  6. Chapter One: On Talking and Learning About Race and Racism in the Obama Era and After
  7. Chapter Two: White Fatigue: Naming the Challenge in Moving From an Individual to a Systemic Understanding of Racism
  8. Chapter Three: From Obama to Trump: Tripping Over Post-Racial America’s Intentions
  9. Chapter Four: The Miseducation of White Folks: The Success and Failure of the Multicultural Education Movement
  10. Chapter Five: Breaking Bad Habit(u)s: Considerations on the Reproduction of Worldviews
  11. Chapter Six: Concluding Thoughts: Promoting Racial Literacy, Standards, and Reconstructing White Folks for Social Justice
  12. Afterword (Edward Moore JR.)