1st Edition

Whiteness, Pedagogy, and Youth in America Critical Whiteness Studies in the Classroom

By Samuel Jaye Tanner Copyright 2018
    160 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    160 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This book employs a narrative approach to recount and interpret the story of an innovative teaching and learning project about whiteness. By offering a first-hand description of a nationally-recognized, high school-based Youth Participatory Action Research project—The Whiteness Project—this book draws out the conflicts and complexities at the core of white students’ racial identities. Critical of the essentializing frameworks traditionally given to address white privilege, this volume advances a distinctive and theoretically robust account of ‘second-wave critical whiteness pedagogy’.

    Introduction: Growing Up White

    Chapter One: Whiteness and Teaching and Learning about Whiteness

    Chapter Two: The Fall – Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)

    Chapter Three: The Winter – Playbuilding

    Chapter Four: The Spring – Producing the Play

    Chapter Five: Aftermath – Toward a Second Wave of Critical Whiteness Pedagogy

    Conclusion: White People Growing Up

    Appendices

    Biography

    Samuel Jaye Tanner is Assistant Professor of Literacy Education at The Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, USA.

    "The pulsing heart of this book is Samuel Jaye Tanner’s storytelling and commentary about a remarkable, year-long project in which white high school students investigated and dramatized how whiteness deformed their own community.  Along the way, Tanner criticizes anti-racist pedagogies grounded in a white privilege framework and theorizes white racial identities with sophistication and power. Many different things are needed for the fight against racism in this time of Trump—Tanner’s book is one of them."

    - Timothy J. Lensmire, Professor, University of Minnesota, USA