Whiteness studies

Critical Whiteness Studies: What is it? Is whiteness only a matter of skin pigmentation? Nyack (2007) questions what would happen if we were to see whiteness as more of an organizing principle. Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS), she explains, provides a radically different way to think about race and challenge whiteness as the universal norm. If, additionally, we think of whiteness as a social construct that includes white culture, ideology, racialization, experiences and emotions, we can understand

Captain Ahab’s eulogy of whiteness shows that the word “white” implies more than a chromatic description. “White” is an untenable perfection that has haunted the American psyche since colonial times. The idea of “white spiritual superiority” can only be enforced by a terrorist politico-legal system, based on brutalizing the non-whites and creating a national fantasy. A national fantasy defined by Lauren Berlant as the means “to designate how national culture becomes local through the images, narratives

Kate’s statement we can see that she is white to the Census, but socially she is not white because society represents whiteness as of European decent. She personally identifies the advantages that white people are given and she is not, even though she technically is white. Kate’s personal statement further mimics’ the 1923 Thind case in which the federal government identifies that whiteness is a social standard that cannot be achieved unless from European descent. Although the federal government no longer

The Matter of Whiteness 1 Running head: White Privilege The Matter of Whiteness Spacemantj The Matter of Whiteness Richard Dyer said “racial imagery is central to the organization of the modern world” because he felt most decisions that represent the practices of the world are based on white man’s ideologies and images in western culture. White people remain a large category that has not been examined in contrast to the many studies of images on African Americans

Captain Ahab’s eulogy of whiteness shows that the word “white” implies more than a chromatic description. “White” is an untenable perfection that has haunted the American psyche since colonial times. The idea of “white spiritual superiority” can only be enforce by a terrorist politico-legal system, based on brutalizing the non-whites and creating a national fantasy. A national fantasy defined by Lauren Berlant as the means “to designate how national culture becomes local through the images, narratives

in my life where I have whiteness white privilege and how it worked against me. I’ve seen white privilege illustrated at various time throughout my life. My personal favorite part of this article was the list of daily effects of White privilege that the author complied. It was interesting yet not relatable. To me, this list was eye opening. I understood the point she was trying to make with it. I cannot

experience of whiteness, something coveted. The experience of whiteness is discussed thoroughly by Sara Ahmed (2007), in her article entitled, “A phenomenology of whiteness”. Ahmed considers whether the experience of whiteness should be revealed as an actual thing that “takes up space, orientates bodies, functions as a habit and serves as the background to social action” (p.149). She references Fine, Weis, Powell and Wong’s view of whiteness as an “essential something” (p.149). If whiteness is real then

Push: Paradigm Complexities 1 INTRODUCTION In Sapphire’s (1997) novel Push, she emphasizes an overall theme of surviving and overcoming adversities like identity, mental disability, and self-image. The dynamics of the book focuses on Clarice Precious Jones, a maltreated and obese, African American teenager who struggles with the repercussions of being physically, sexually, and psychologically abused by her parents— mainly, getting impregnated by her father. Precious and her first child by her father

This is not done in conspicuous ways, though. “In both subtle and overt ways, the “hidden curriculum” works to re-produce and re-inforce the inequalities that exist in society. Studies show that streaming practices, teacher expectation and pedagogy, as well as the curriculum itself, all work to disadvantage certain racialized and minoritized youth on the basis of race, gender and class” (Dei et. al. 2004. 94). First of all, there

Theoretical Framework of the Study As seen in the previous literature, empirical research in the last twenty years reveals the positive student outcomes associated to service-learning. However, as Susan Jones (2002) argues, student’s ability to actively participate in all aspects of their service-learning experience depends on “the intersection of the student’s own background. . . , developmental readiness for such a learning experience, and the privileging conditions that put a college student