"It's a Good Kind of Discomfort": White Teachers on Ethnic Studies in the American South

• In Event: Leveraging the Power of Identity

Abstract

This article describes a narrative inquiry of white social studies teachers’ perception of and response to Ethnic Studies curriculum in the American South. Using Critical Whiteness and Fugitive Pedagogy as theoretical frameworks, participants were asked to read a selection of text then engage in a dialogue about Ethnic Studies and its possibilities as transformational teaching.

Authors

• Brian C. Gibbs, Georgia College & State University
  Presenting Author

• Kristin Papoi, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
  Presenting Author