Exposing White Fragility and White Emotionalities in Hello Privilege. It's Me, Chelsea

• In Event: Privilege, Pedagogies, and Professional Development: Teachers' Work Dilemmas and Discourse

Abstract

Because teacher educators are steeped in media, we aim to engage in critical race media literacy through an analysis of Hello Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea. We illustrate how to disrupt and challenge notions of whiteness through identifying white fragility and white emotionalities within the documentary. Due to recent events and the “race” to engage in antiracist work, we feel that using Critical Race Media Literacy to highlight white fragility and emotionalities in the documentary could be fruitful in teacher education circles. In this paper, we aim to illustrate how film can be a pedagogical tool to use in antiracist social studies teacher education.

Authors

• Mary Adu-Gyamfi, University of Missouri - Columbia

• Sara Beth Demoiny, Auburn University

• LaGarrett Jarriel King, University of Missouri - Columbia

• Greg Simmons, University of Missouri - Columbia