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Book SynopsisWhat does it look like to let go of Whiteness? Whiteness promotes a form of hegemonic thinking, which influences not only thought processes but also behavior within the academy. Working to dismantle the racism and whiteness that continue to keep oppressed people powerless and immobilized in academe requires sharing power, opportunity, and access. Removing barriers to the knowledge created in higher education is an essential part of this process. The process of unhooking oneself from institutionalized whiteness certainly requires fighting hegemonic modes of thought and patriarchal views that persistently keep marginalized groups of academics in their station (or at their institution). In the explosive Unhooking from Whiteness: Resisting the Esprit de Corps, editors Hartlep and Hayes continued the conversation they began in 2013 with Unhooking from Whiteness: The Key to Dismantling Racism in the United States. This third and final volume focuses on the writers' processes to let go of the pathology of Whiteness. The contributors in this book have once again come from an intersection of races, ethnicities, sexual identities and gender identities and includes conversations across these multiple intersections. The editors move from prepared précises on multicultural education toward actionable conversations that drive social justice agendas and have the power to eliminate educational inequities.
Table of ContentsPreface: Unhooking from Whiteness: #BlackLivesMatter! Issac Carter About the Cover: Cruising the Political Landscape in 1992 Los Angeles Luis-Genaro Garcia List of Figures and Tables About the Contributors Prologue: Corpus Delecti Lasana D. Kazembe 1 Unhooking from Whiteness: Beginning the Journey Cleveland Hayes, Issac Carter and Kathy Elderson 2 Decivilization in the Trump Error: A Call for Humanity without the Whiteness of Man Issac Carter 3 Four Domains of Benefiting from Racism: A Multi-Year Autoethnography of a High School Student Exchange Andrew J. Schiera 4 Loving Blackness to Dismantle Whiteness: On Pushing Ideals of Social Justice to Unhook from Whiteness Brenda Juarez Harris 5 Gay Is Not the New Black: Decentering Whiteness in the Quest for Equality Cleveland Hayes 6 The Least Racist White Person in the Room: Towards Critical Authenticity Dennis L. Rudnick 7 I Must Confront What Is Uncomfortable Adonay Montes 8 Diversity Bang: Who Benefits from Interest Convergence in Higher Ed? Naomi W. Nishi 9 Defecting from Whiteness: Coalescing toward Liberation Zachary S. Ritter and Kenneth R. Roth 10 “Hey, I Live There!”: Unpacking Environmental Justice Education and Whiteness in a Rust Belt City Monica L. Miles, Kate Haq and Eve Shippens 11 Complicating the Ally/Enemy Dichotomy: White Teachers, Critical Whiteness, and Racial Justice Identifications Jamie Utt 12 The Enemy Is White Supremacy: How South Korea and China Got Hooked Hannah R. Stohry, Jing Tan and Brittany A. Aronson 13 Beyond the Color Lines: A Duoethnography of Multiraciality and Unhooking Cristina Santamaría Graff and Josh Manlove 14 Your Whiteness Is Showing, and Yes, It Is Racist: How Whites Stay in the Dark Jared J. Aldern and Peter M. Newlove 15 There Is No Turning Back Kathy Elderson Afterword Nicholas D. Hartlep Index
