Discourse and Whiteness

Cushing‐Leubner, Jenna

doi:10.1163/9789004444836_019

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“…This idea of our families never enslaving Black men and women is a common resistance in many classrooms where teachers make critical and anti-racist pedagogy in the classroom a priority (Applebaum, 2017, Applebaum, 2020b, Bonilla-Silva, 2006, Castagno, 2019, Cushing-Leubner, 2020, Matias, 2016, Matias, 2020. Although, I found Lindsey's poignant words on whether our families did or did not enslave Black men and women something that we white teachers could reflect on and even bring up with our students.…”

Section: And Niceness As a Wholementioning

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Nice White Teacher: How Niceness and Whiteness Prevent Antiracist Pedagogy in the Classroom

Ruby¹

2022

Proceedings of the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting

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even though our official study ended, I still like that we meet and talk and enjoy hearing how you are building your communities in the circles of influence. I am happy to know all of you and that I can call you all friends.Lastly, thank you to my loveable dog, Ben, for your patience, for taking fewer walks this past year, and for standing guard at the office door to save me from all those rustling leaves. Thank you to my cats, Sadie and Zatara, for demanding I take breaks by sitting on me or my computer until the proper number of pets was given. I may not have human children, but you three are the closest I have to babies, and I love you very much.Thank you to every teacher, student, colleague, peer, and friend that came alongside me on this doctoral journey.To future readers and postgraduate students, I wish you all the best, and I promise that while this doctoral journey may be all-consuming and lonely, it is doable. I also recommend finding your people and your community. They will keep you grounded and help you cross the finish line. Plus, you make many meaningful friendships that bring light and joy to your life and will stay with you long after finishing the work.

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Section: And Niceness As a Wholementioning

confidence: 98%

Nice White Teacher: How Niceness and Whiteness Prevent Antiracist Pedagogy in the Classroom

Ruby¹

2022

Proceedings of the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting

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‘White Child Gone Bankrupt’—The Intersection of Race and Poverty in Youth Fathered by UN Peacekeepers

Wagner

Bartels

Weber

et al. 2022

Cult Med Psychiatry

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Children fathered and abandoned by United Nations peacekeepers are an unintended consequence of peacekeeping operations. Research suggests that the social identity of peacekeeper-fathered children (PKFC) is complex and contradictory. While economically disadvantaged, PKFC’s biracial background confers elements of racial privilege. Using the Democratic Republic of Congo as a case study, the present research evaluates the impact of racial differences on PKFC’s social standing. Drawing on in-depth interviews with a racially heterogeneous sample of 35 PKFC and 60 mothers, we analyse how race and poverty interact and cause PKFC’s conflicting social role. The data demonstrates that being of mixed race leads to the expectation of a higher living standard. Since most PKFC live in extreme economic deprivation, their anticipated privilege contrasts with reality. We found that the stigmatizing effects of poverty were amplified by biracial identification, leading to additional disadvantage, epitomised in the term “Muzungu aliye homba” [white child gone bankrupt]. The findings add to research on ‘children born of war’ and show the role of culture in shaping youth’s social identities. Based on PKFC’s intersecting burdens, we make policy recommendations that address the nexus of race and poverty.

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Imperial straightening devices in disciplinary choices of academic knowledge production

Cushing‐Leubner

Engman

Ennser–Kananen

et al. 2021

LCS

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In this piece, the authors question whether critical language research, in its complex collection of researcher choices, is possible beyond the discursive imaginary of critical academic scholarship. In other words, how do (allegedly) anticolonial efforts re-orient towards contribution to the imperial record? We present three vignettes, through which we grapple with the notion that researcher choice exists within the solipsism of academia. In doing so, we frame research and scholarship as a collection of choices, which we believe are better understood as a collection of fraught dilemmas. These dilemmas recognize that all academic scholarship production and its processes are birthed from, and serve, an epistemology of hierarchical social configurations, which serve empire maintenance and expansion. As critical language scholars who bring overlapping and distinct sociopolitical, geographic, and methodological positionalities, these autoethnographic narrative vignettes allow us to begin to see the landscape of researcher choice in the processes and projects of accumulating knowledge production. We identify imperial straightening devices for legitimization into the imperial archive and examine how they work to orient and re-orient critical language scholars towards the ideological and material production of the imperial archive.

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Discourse and Whiteness

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Nice White Teacher: How Niceness and Whiteness Prevent Antiracist Pedagogy in the Classroom

Nice White Teacher: How Niceness and Whiteness Prevent Antiracist Pedagogy in the Classroom

‘White Child Gone Bankrupt’—The Intersection of Race and Poverty in Youth Fathered by UN Peacekeepers

Imperial straightening devices in disciplinary choices of academic knowledge production

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