White Immunity: Working Through Some of the Pedagogical Pitfalls of “Privilege”

Cabrera, Nolan L.

doi:10.15763/issn.2642-2387.2017.3.1.77-90

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“…In white hegemonic nations such as Australia, the acceptance of Whiteness as the cultural norm maintains the balance of power in favour of white people and institutions [ 15 , 39 ]. Related to this are critiques of the concept of white privilege, which as Cabrera [ 40 ] (p. 78) asserts, may do a disservice to anti-racist actions because “instead of engaging issues of racism, white people frequently search in their personal histories for narratives of struggle and then use them to downplay the significance of white privilege”. Cabrera [ 40 ] suggests that “White immunity” is a more nuanced and effective term for conveying the invisible cloak of advantage that protects white people from systems and structures of oppression and racialisation.…”

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Trauma and Violence Informed Care Through Decolonising Interagency Partnerships: A Complexity Case Study of Waminda’s Model of Systemic Decolonisation

Cullen

Mackean

Worner

et al. 2020

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Through the lens of complexity, we present a nested case study describing a decolonisation approach developed and implemented by Waminda South Coast Women’s Health and Welfare Aboriginal Corporation. Using Indigenous research methods, this case study has unfolded across three phases: (1) Yarning interviews with the workforce from four partner health services (n = 24); (2) Yarning circle bringing together key informants from yarning interviews to verify and refine emerging themes (n = 14); (3) Semi-structured interviews with a facilitator of Waminda’s Decolonisation Workshop (n = 1) and participants (n = 10). Synthesis of data has been undertaken in stages through collaborative framework and thematic analysis. Three overarching themes and eight sub-themes emerged that centred on enhancing the capabilities of the workforce and strengthening interagency partnerships through a more meaningful connection and shared decolonisation agenda that centres Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities. Health and social services are complex systems that function within the context of colonisation. Waminda’s innovative, model of interagency collaboration enhanced workforce capability through shared language and collective learning around colonisation, racism and Whiteness. This process generated individual, organisational and systemic decolonisation to disable power structures through trauma and violence informed approach to practice.

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Trauma and Violence Informed Care Through Decolonising Interagency Partnerships: A Complexity Case Study of Waminda’s Model of Systemic Decolonisation

Cullen

Mackean

Worner

et al. 2020

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“…White privilege is the bedrock of critical whiteness studies and the most colloquially cited, understood, and refuted tenet of whiteness. Originally articulated as an invisible knapsack containing unearned benefits accrued due to whiteness (examples included a compass, map, and a firestarter that were all afforded to white people as they made their way through the world; McIntosh, 1989), white privilege has recently been rearticulated as white immunity within the critical whiteness literature (Cabrera, 2017(Cabrera, , 2018. Cabrera argues that white privilege encounters some pitfalls in practice, namely that it describes a "semi-charmed life or one that is defined by wealth" (2018, p. 11), and is thus easily defensible by legions of white people willing to assert that they are not wealthy or privileged, they have worked hard to overcome oppression and adverse circumstances, and that their whiteness afforded them no benefits.…”

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Radicalized on Campus? (Un)Coded Whiteness as Campus Social Movement

Havey

2020

Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis

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This paper explores how whiteness is rhetorically employed in the recruitment and organizational strategies of conservative student campus groups. It considers group activity prior to, during, and after the 2016 U.S. presidential election cycle and during the 2020 presidential election cycle. Drawing on both critical whiteness studies and social movements, this study examines how conservative students engage in framing processes designed to convert nonadherents to adherents of a group ideology. It also interrogates how whiteness influences this framing. Through a multi-site case study analysis incorporating observation, interviews, and a critical document analysis of over 100 unique articles and student group artifacts (e.g., flyers, social media posts, student newspaper editorials, etc.), and over 2,000 tweets over two distinct time points, I find that conservative student groups are employing whiteness to recruit new students over shared experiences. Specific effort is focused on "coming out" as conservative, identifying as the more academically and intellectually rigorous side of the campus political debate, and disidentifying with contemporary campus liberalism.

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“…As I have taken on more roles in higher education, despite being multiracial and genderqueer, I understand how I pass as a white man at times which allows me access to spaces and more institutional forgiveness than those who are rendered as People of Color and/or feminine. Though I am queer, I am highly cognizant of my privilege and immunity, or the ways whiteness guarantees me “rights, justice, and equitable social treatment” over People of Color (Cabrera, , p. 82). This immunity requires me to leverage it for greater projects of social change.…”

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confidence: 99%