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ERIC Number: EJ780306
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Nov
Pages: 15
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-2004
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White Complicity and Social Justice Education: Can One Be Culpable without Being Liable?
Applebaum, Barbara
Educational Theory, v57 n4 p453-467 Nov 2007
In part of an ongoing study of white complicity, moral responsibility, and moral agency in social justice education, Barbara Applebaum asks in this essay what model or models of moral responsibility can help white students recognize their white complicity and which models of moral responsibility obscure such acknowledgment. To address this question, she explores the concept of white complicity and its relation to racism and raises some compelling conceptual and pedagogical questions. Then she reviews a recent analysis of the concept of "complicity" and shows it to be inadequate as a foundation for white complicity. Finally, Applebaum describes Iris Marion Young's conception of a Social Connection Model of Responsibility and shows it to be capable not only of elucidating white complicity but also, when incorporated in social justice pedagogy, of diminishing denials of white complicity by white students.
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Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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