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Book SynopsisExploring White Fragility uses both existing research and anecdotal classroom observations to examine the effects whiteness studies is having on America's schools, and investigates how the antiracist movement to dismantle white supremacy culture is impacting student and teacher morale and expectations, school discipline, and overall academic achievement. Specifically, it analyzes the major tenets of whiteness studies, including awareness of white privilege and white fragility; the belief in colorblindness, individualism, and meritocracy; white racial identity development (WRID); implicit bias and microaggressions; and the methodologies underlying these concepts.
The book also compares traditional multicultural education to antiracist education; examines the impact of family and culture on learning, discipline, and achievement; investigates how whiteness studies and antiracism influence stereotype threat, the school-to-prison pipeline (STPP), and teacher and student expectation
Trade Review
This is a brave book. Paslay reveals and cuts through the endless layers of antiracist gospel which, in the name of enlightenment, leave one cohort of brown kids after another uneducated. Aspiring teachers seeking clear eyes and genuine progressivism should start by inhaling this book.
-- John McWhorter, professor of linguistics, Columbia University; host of Slate's Lexicon Valley podcast
Table of ContentsPreface: Not All Whites Are Racially Illiterate
Introduction: The One-Sided Conversation
Chapter 1: The Tenets of Whiteness Studies
Chapter 2: Methodology
Chapter 3: Anti-Bias Training
Chapter 4: Culture Matters
Chapter 5: Parents and Patriarchy
Chapter 6: Assault on Learning
Chapter 7: Racial Disparities and School Discipline
Chapter 8: The Power of Expectations
Chapter 9: Solutions: Diversity Through Unity
