Learning Whiteness : Education and the Settler Colonial State
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| Title: | Learning Whiteness : Education and the Settler Colonial State |
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| Description: | Whiteness is not innate – it is learned. The systems of white domination that prevail across the world are not pregiven or natural. Rather, they are forged and sustained in social and political life. Learning Whiteness examines the material conditions, knowledge politics and complex feelings that create and relay systems of racial domination. Focusing on Australia, the authors demonstrate how whiteness is fundamentally an educational project – taught within education institutions and through public discourse – in active service of the settler colonial state. To see whiteness as learned is to recognise that it can be confronted. This book invites readers to reckon with past and present politics of education in order to imagine a future thoroughly divested from racism. |
| Authors: | Arathi Sriprakash, Sophie Rudolph, Jessica Gerrard |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | White people--Race identity--Australia |
| Categories: | EDUCATION / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Whiteness is not innate – it is learned. The systems of white domination that prevail across the world are not pregiven or natural. Rather, they are forged and sustained in social and political life. Learning Whiteness examines the material conditions, knowledge politics and complex feelings that create and relay systems of racial domination. Focusing on Australia, the authors demonstrate how whiteness is fundamentally an educational project – taught within education institutions and through public discourse – in active service of the settler colonial state. To see whiteness as learned is to recognise that it can be confronted. This book invites readers to reckon with past and present politics of education in order to imagine a future thoroughly divested from racism. |
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| ISBN: | 9780745342146 9780745342153 9781786808615 9781786808622 |
