ERIC Number: EJ1012278
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 25
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Who You Callin' White?! A Critical Counter-Story on Colouring White Identity
Matias, Cheryl E.
Race, Ethnicity and Education, v16 n3 p291-315 2013
This action research, which utilizes critical race theory's counter-storytelling, analyses a process of debunking White students' epistemology of ignorance in a history course at an urban public high school. After piloting a raced curriculum that deliberately re-centers marginalized counter-stories of students of colour, I document its impacts on White students' understanding of history. Ultimately, such a process problematizes White students' sense of identity. I employ the analytic tools of Whiteness as power to understand how White students responded to curriculum on race and racism. The analysis silences White dominant Discourse while activating counter-stories by modelling critical consciousness and "colourscence" for my students of colour. Further, I detail two specific responses made by White students in this study: (1) symbiotic transformation; and (2) active resistance. Regardless of the differences in responses, both are processes in debunking White epistemology of ignorance. (Contains 16 notes.)
Descriptors: Whites, Ethnicity, Racial Identification, Action Research, Critical Theory, Racial Factors, Resistance (Psychology), Social Theories, Epistemology, High School Students, Curriculum, Minority Groups, Social History, Identification (Psychology), Racial Bias, Consciousness Raising, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Urban Areas
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Opinion Papers
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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