Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 "We—the Militant Ones": A Collective Autoethnographic Analysis of Racial Standpoints, Locating Whiteness, and Student/Teacher Interaction Chapter 3 Negotiating White Racial Identity in Multicultural Courses: A Model Chapter 4 "It Is Not My Responsibility to Teach Culture!": White Graduate Teaching Assistants Negotiating Identity and Pedagogy Chapter 5 Pedagogy of the Opaque: The Subject of Whiteness in Communication and Diversity Courses Chapter 6 The "White Problem" in Intercultural Communication Research and Pedagogy Chapter 7 Staging Whiteness: Possibilities for Resistance and Revelation in a High School Production of Simply Maria, or, The American Dream Chapter 8 Coloring Outside the Lines: Unmasking Performances of White Identity Through Role-Play Chapter 9 Race, Inversive Performance, and Public Pedagogy in White Man's Burden Chapter 10 Performing Parody: Toward a Politics of Variation in Whiteness Chapter 11 The Joke's on You? Chapter 12 "Can't We Focus on the Good Stuff?": The Pedagogical Differences Between Comfort and Critique Chapter 13 (Un)hinging Whiteness Chapter 14 Conclusion
Leda M. Cooks is associate professor of communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Jennifer S. Simpson is associate professor of drama and speech communication at the University of Waterloo.
Whiteness,Pedagogy, Performance is an important book at a time when
talking about race is growing more urgent, when a shift in race
consciousness is becoming increasingly more necessary, when
pressures increasingly mount to neutralize or erase race, or when
white privilege is denied or minimalized. While we should avoid
placing white people at the center of our discussions on race, we
nevertheless need to locate how whiteness is implicated in
reproducing relations of oppression and exploitation and the global
division of labor and in the creation of laboring bodies within the
larger totality of capitalist social relations. Whiteness,
Pedagogy, Performance is a book that can provide educators with a
valuable weapon in the struggle for social and economic
justice.
*Peter McLaren, Honorary Chair Professor and Director of the Center
for Critical Studies, Northeast Normal University, China*
This edited book is innovative, well organized, and clear.
*PsycCRITIQUES, March 2008*
For those interested in the doings of whiteness, this text asks and
then tries to answer a series of important questions: How does the
performance of whiteness infuse our pedagogy and classroom
interactions? In what ways and with what effects does whiteness
inform our field and the ways in which we construct, think about,
and study communication? What sorts of strategies might we adopt to
disrupt the normative functioning of whiteness in these venues?
This edited volume gives insight into these questions and more. An
important addition to the growing communication scholarship on the
performance of whiteness.
*Dreama G. Moon, associate professor of communication, Cal State
San Marcos*
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