60.055 - Unhooking From Whiteness: Autoethnographic Approaches Toward Education as Freedom Dreams Through the Abolition of Liberalism, Meritocracy, and Color Blindness in U.S. Teacher Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Unhooking from Whiteness,” means breaking the “hegemonic device.” The hegemonic device as the strategy used by whites to maintain the racial hierarchy and that also sets the standard for how minorities should behave. Breaking the hegemonic device disrupts the dominance of whites in the racial hierarchy by redirecting the “causes” of racial inequities back to their root causes. This transformative resistance—what we call unhooking from whiteness—also forces (non) whites to see themselves as not racially neutral, but held accountable and responsible for the exclusion of others. By “unpacking” our stories, the authors hope to provide deeper insights of race, by disrupting notions of liberalism

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 3: Teachers’ and Teacher Educators’ Lives: Lived Experiences, Identities, Socialization and Development

Chair

• Ricky Lee Allen, University of New Mexico

Papers

• I Refuse to Be a Pawn for Whiteness: A Korean Transracial Adoptee Speaks Out - Nicholas Daniel Hartlep, Metropolitan State University

• When I Unhooked, I Changed the Way I Teach for a Just Society - Cleveland Hayes, University of La Verne

• White Tundra: Exploring the Emotionally Frozen Terrain of Whiteness - Cheryl E. Matias, University of Colorado - Denver

• Teaching Millennials to See the Rainbow: Exploring the Myth of Postracialism in Teacher Education - Madhavi Tandon, University of Colorado - Denver

Discussants

• Antonio Latrell Ellis, College of Charleston

• Jaquial Durham, College of Charleston