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White Fatigue: Rethinking Resistance for Social Justice

White Fatigue: Rethinking Resistance for Social Justice

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Series: Social Justice Across Contexts in Education, Book 8

General Education

ISBN10: 1433158957
ISBN13: 9781433158957
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: May 31 2018
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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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