Book chapter
Managing White Fragility
Social Work, White Supremacy, and Racial Justice, pp.715-727
Oxford University Press
2023
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197641422.003.0038
Abstract
As a Black woman faculty member teaching a diversity course at a predominantly White institution, the author finds it challenging to prepare White students to engage in antiracist pedagogy that encourages them to learn about their privileged positionality and power. The author witnesses how White students intellectually reproduce information about racialized groups but struggle to notice their role in the privileging of Whiteness. This chapter describes curricular strategies the author uses to help White students manage their defensiveness and anger toward her as a Black woman and sit in the discomfort of course content that highlights the experiences of people of color dissonant with the dominant White culture. One specific strategy the author uses to help White students connect to their racial privilege is a fifteen-episode podcast called Seeing White, where the hosts examine “where the notion of whiteness comes from” and unpack the purposely untold history of race in America.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Managing White Fragility
- Creators
- Yolanda Spears
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Social Work, White Supremacy, and Racial Justice, pp.715-727
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; New York
- DOI
- 10.1093/oso/9780197641422.003.0038
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2023
- Academic Unit
- School of Social Work
- Record Identifier
- 9984719844102771
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