Whiteness Interrupted : White Teachers and Racial Identity in Predominantly Black Schools

Bell, Marcus

ISBN 10: 1478014636 / ISBN 13: 9781478014638

Editore: Duke University Press, 2021

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• Titolo: Whiteness Interrupted : White Teachers and Racial Identity in Predominantly Black Schools
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1478014636
• ISBN 13: 9781478014638
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

In Whiteness Interrupted Marcus Bell presents a revealing portrait of white teachers in majority-black schools in which he examines the limitations of understandings of how white racial identity is formed. Through in-depth interviews with dozens of white teachers from a racially segregated, urban school district in Upstate New York, Bell outlines how whiteness is constructed based on localized interactions and takes a different form in predominantly black spaces. He finds that in response to racial stress in a difficult teaching environment, white teachers conceptualized whiteness as a stigmatized category predicated on white victimization. When discussing race outside majority-black spaces, Bell's subjects characterized American society as postracial, in which race seldom affects outcomes. Conversely, in discussing their experiences within predominantly black spaces, they rejected the idea of white privilege, often angrily, and instead focused on what they saw as the racial privilege of blackness. Throughout, Bell underscores the significance of white victimization narratives in black spaces and their repercussions as the United States becomes a majority-minority society.

Informazioni sull?autore

Marcus Bell is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Cortland.