51.050 - Shades of Whiteness: Navigating Whiteness in the Academy From a Third Space

Session Type: Demonstration/Performance

Abstract

Through a powerful Stichomythia performance, this session hopes to show how to effectively utilize auto-ethnographic writings to critically and investigate sociocultural questions in education. Performers will illustrate how experiences illuminating the intricacies of the many shades of whiteness (Jacobson, 2009) has led one African-American Muslim scholar and one Asian transracial immigrant adoptee scholar on a serendipitous crash course towards a sociocultural education in higher education whiteness. By highlighting how our K-12 educational experiences and childhood racial dynamics have played a significant role in the development of our double consciousness (Dubois & Edwards, 2007) we critique how our seemingly very disparate experiences have left us (un)prepared to navigate the inescapable truth of the complexities of whiteness in the academy.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Issues in Curriculum

Papers

• Shades of Whiteness: Navigating Whiteness as a Transracial Immigrant Adoptee - Andrew Garbisch

• Different Shades (of Whiteness) for Different Grades - Jerry Jameel Wilson, University of North Carolina