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Whiteness, Pedagogy, Performance is unique in bringing together these three important topics in the context of communication teaching and scholarship with an eye toward interdisciplinary perspectives. In fourteen chapters, the leading whiteness scholars in the field of communication analyze the process of teaching and learning and the complicated intersections of whiteness, racial identity, and cross-racial dialogue. Toward these ends, these essays offer a variety of theoretical and practical approaches to the analysis of identity construction, racial privilege, and pedagogies toward equality and social justice. Above all, for teachers, students, and anyone interested in these issues, this book is a challenge to re-think the ways our curricula, texts, disciplinary boundaries, and moreover, how our interactions and performances re-inscribe racial privileges. Chapters provide innovative and accessible analyses of teaching and learning that will appeal to students, teachers, administrators, and anyone interested in how race works.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 "We-the Militant Ones": A Collective Autoethnographic Analysis of Racial Standpoints, Locating Whiteness, and Student/Teacher Interaction
Chapter 3 Negotiating White Racial Identity in Multicultural Courses: A Model
Chapter 4 "It Is Not My Responsibility to Teach Culture!": White Graduate Teaching Assistants Negotiating Identity and Pedagogy
Chapter 5 Pedagogy of the Opaque: The Subject of Whiteness in Communication and Diversity Courses
Chapter 6 The "White Problem" in Intercultural Communication Research and Pedagogy
Chapter 7 Staging Whiteness: Possibilities for Resistance and Revelation in a High School Production of Simply Maria, or, The American Dream
Chapter 8 Coloring Outside the Lines: Unmasking Performances of White Identity Through Role-Play
Chapter 9 Race, Inversive Performance, and Public Pedagogy in White Man's Burden
Chapter 10 Performing Parody: Toward a Politics of Variation in Whiteness
Chapter 11 The Joke's on You?
Chapter 12 "Can't We Focus on the Good Stuff?": The Pedagogical Differences Between Comfort and Critique
Chapter 13 (Un)hinging Whiteness
Chapter 14 Conclusion

Product details

Published Feb 15 2007
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 336
ISBN 9780739114629
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 238 x 161 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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