Making Ourselves Up: Toward Embodying Affective, Queer, Intersectional, and Feminist Critical Whiteness Studies

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 6
  In Roundtable Session: Examining Whiteness and Its Consequences

Abstract

This paper engages feminist and queer autoethnographic scholarship to examine intersectional issues within second-wave critical whiteness studies (e.g., recent literature articulating “race-conscientizing teacher education”). We center gender, bodies, and affect to explore embodied experiences in the theory and practice of critical whiteness studies. It builds from a series of papers theorizing white femininity’s problematic alliance with white heteropatriarchy in interpersonal spaces; the gendered and affective dimensions of the teacher strike wave; the problems, possibilities, and impacts of white women’s affect; and the differential dangers in antiracist pedagogies experienced by white women and women of color. Taken together, these theoretical and empirical studies point toward a need toward intersectional and body-based work in critical whiteness studies.

Authors

• Shannon McManimon, SUNY - College at New Paltz

• Erin Lee Dyke, Oklahoma State University

• Colleen Clements, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Ann Mogush Mason, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Erin Beeman Stutelberg, Salisbury University