Excavating Whiteness is unique in its focus on a cohort of teachers and teacher educators and their relationships with one another across time and opportunities for learning about themselves and others through intensive workshops and day-long sessions across several months. This volume centers raw teacher voices doing the hard—and sometimes messy, exhausting, confusing, heart wrenching—work of excavating, interrogating, and grappling with race, racialized identities, and whiteness. The careful ethnographic approach of authors Pennington, Brock and Ndura stands in sharp contrast to studies that present deficit-driven narratives of teachers based on limited interactions. This book is a terrific resource for teachers and teacher educators who seek to further their own opportunities for learning about and challenging whiteness.

Mary McVee, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Pennington, Brock, and Ndura believe in the good work and good intentions of teachers. Through this remarkable book, they guide teachers and teacher educators on the important path to learning more about race, whiteness, and language diversity.

Sherry Marx, Utah State University