{"product_id":"whiteness-at-the-table-9781498578097","title":"Whiteness at the Table","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntiracist work in education has proceeded as if the only social relation at issue is the one between white people and people of color. But what if our antiracist efforts are being undermined by unexamined difficulties and struggles among white people?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhiteness at the Table examines whiteness in the lived experiences of young children, family members, students, teachers, and school administrators. It focuses on racism and antiracism within the context of relationships. Its authors argue that we cannot read or understand whiteness as a phenomenon without attending to the everyday complexities and conflicts of white people's lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edited volume is entitled Whiteness at the Table, then, for at least three reasons. First, the title evokes the origins of this book in the ongoing storytelling and theorizing of the Midwest Critical Whiteness Collectivea small collective of antiracist educators, scholars, and activists who have been gathering at its founders' dinin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMcManimon, Casey, and Berchini have produced a wonderfully original and very powerful set of essays that push Critical Whiteness Studies forward on multiple levels, ranging from the theoretical to the highly personal. As a scholar, I appreciate the messy complexity Whiteness at the Table brings to a structural analysis of white supremacy. As a white person engaged in antiracist work, I resonate with the quandaries and tensions the authors name and take seriously. I highly recommend this thoughtful and brave volume. -- Christine Sleeter, professor emerita, California State University, Monterey Bay\u003cbr\u003eThis book documents more than a decade of conceptual-empirical work on whiteness and White identity studies carried out by the Midwest Critical Whiteness Collective. Importantly, the Collective has consistently advanced what Tim Lensmire and I began calling \"second-wave\" whiteness or White identity studies back in 2010. In times when the salience of race and racialized understandings take on new meanings in the US and elsewhere with the return of openly racist identities along with both new race-visible and race-evasive meanings, this edited volume places the reader simultaneously within the most historicized and the most up-to-date work in existence on whiteness and White identities. -- James C. Jupp, professor and chair, department of Teaching and Learning, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt feels refreshing to read a book where white authors seem as committed to antiracist education as those who suffer directly from the brutalities of racial violence. It is refreshing not because these authors are in any ways more special than others, but because, as this book suggests, they understand how underwhelming Whites have been on questions of racism and their consequences. \u003c\/p\u003e -- David E. Kirkland, executive director of NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools and associate professor of English and Urban Education\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Decoteau J. Irby\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction, Timothy J. Lensmire\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Race, Class, Patriotism, and Religion in Early Childhood: The Formation of Whiteness, Erin T. Miller\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Walking the Walk, or Walking on Eggshells: Silence and the Limits of White Privilege, Christina Berchini\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Whiteness as Chaos and Weakness: Our “Abnormal” White Lives, Samuel Jaye Tanner and Audrey Lensmire\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: The Colorblind Conundrum: Seeing and Not Seeing Color in White Rural Schools, Mary E. Lee-Nichols and Jessica Dockter Tierney\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: A White Principal, a Fantasy of Dirt, and Anxieties of Attraction, Bryan Davis and Timothy J. Lensmire\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Uneasy Racial “Experts”: White Teachers and Antiracist Action, Zachary A. Casey and Shannon K. McManimon\u003cbr\u003eChapter7: Who are We as White People to Be?: Thoughts on Learning, Loss, Confusion, and Commitment in Antiracist Work, Zachary A. Casey, with Shannon K. McManimon and Christina Berchini\u003cbr\u003eAfterword by Beverly E. Cross\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Authors","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040827801943,"sku":"9781498578097","price":33.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498578097.jpg?v=1750947975","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/whiteness-at-the-table-9781498578097","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}