A Critical Phenomenological Study of White Hegemony Among (Self-Described) Antiracist Teacher Educators at Predominantly White Institutions

• In Event: Friday Roundtable Session 4:55 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Taking on Empires of Whiteness: Antiracism in Theory and Practice (Table 24)

Abstract

Asking, What is required to create educational spaces free of injustice?, we – white scholars teaching at PWIs – interrogate our complicity as barriers to such efforts, even as (self-described) antiracists, through a critical phenomenological study of white hegemony. Drawing on our two-year study involving online discussions of race, racism, and the book Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You (Reynolds & Kendi, 2020), we hermeneutically (re)examine our original ways of seeing to expose “the patterns according to which we see” (Guenther, 2019) to understand whiteness and its impacts on our ongoing analysis, inviting reflexive scrutiny of our antiracism and exposing how white hegemony surfaces in our own practices even as we presume to forward these pedagogies among our students.

Authors

• Caroline T. Clark, The Ohio State University

• Rachel Skrlac Lo, Villanova University

• Mike P. Cook, Auburn University

• Ashley Summer Boyd, Washington State University

• Ryan M. Rish, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Adam Crawley, University of Colorado - Boulder