Learning Whiteness

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Education and the Settler Colonial State

By Jessica Gerrard and Sophie Rudolph and Arathi Sriprakash

Summary

Learning Whiteness explores how whiteness is not an innate trait but a learned construct maintained through education and social systems. Concentrating on Australia, it reveals whiteness as an educational project supporting settler colonialism and examines the political, material, and emotional forces that uphold racial domination. The book challenges readers to confront historical and current educational politics to envision a future free from racism.
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Ideal for readers interested in race studies, education, social justice, and Australian history, as well as educators and scholars aiming to understand and challenge systemic racism.

As racism persists across the world, we need to understand the role of education in sustaining white supremacy

Description

Whiteness is not innate – it is learned. The systems of white domination that prevail across the world are not pregiven or natural. Rather, they are forged and sustained in social and political life.

Learning Whiteness examines the material conditions, knowledge politics, and complex feelings that create and relay systems of racial domination. Focusing on Australia, the authors demonstrate how whiteness is fundamentally an educational project – taught within education institutions and through public discourse – in active service of the settler colonial state.

To see whiteness as learned is to recognise that it can be confronted. This book invites readers to reckon with past and present politics of education in order to imagine a future thoroughly divested from racism.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780745342153

Publisher: Pluto Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 May 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pluto Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 190g

Pages: 176

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Arathi Sriprakash Education & Reference History & Archaeology History & Military Jessica Gerrard Non-Fiction Sophie Rudolph

About the Author

Arathi Sriprakash is a Professor of Education at the University of Bristol. She is a founding member of the Race, Empire and Education Research Collective. Sophie Rudolph is a Senior Lecturer in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Unsettling the Gap: Race, Politics and Indigenous Education. Jessica Gerrard is an Associate Professor at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. She is the author of Radical Childhoods and Precarious Enterprise on the Margins.