The Writing Was on the Wall: Dismantling the White Hegemonic Alliance in the Trump Era

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Although many liberals were shocked at the election of Donald J. Trump, the writing was on the wall. Whites did what they needed to do at the polls to preserve whiteness. This panel features papers that delve into the concept of the White Hegemonic Alliance (Allen, 2008) and particularly interrogates how this alliance is perpetuated and resisted within intimate spaces like family and the educational work and resistance that happens in the family and in the classroom, particularly given the enwhitened epistemology (Matias & Newlove, 2017) that dominates along with Trump.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Macro-analysis of the social contexts of teaching and learning

Chair

• Chezare A. Warren, Michigan State University

Papers

• The Essential Need for a Critical Consciousness of the White Hegemonic Alliance - Ricky Lee Allen, University of New Mexico

• Racist Babies: Deconstructing the White-Racialization Moment - Naomi Nishi, University of Colorado - Denver

• Maintaining the Matriarchy: The Role of White Women in Upholding the White Hegemonic Alliance - Amanda Parker, University of New Mexico

• I Pledge Allegiance to White Supremacy: Counterstories of a Black Ph.D. Student - Danielle Walker, University of Colorado - Denver