Whiteness is not innate – it is learned. The systems of white domination that prevail across the world are not pregiven or natural. Rather, they are forged and sustained in social and political life.
Learning Whiteness examines the material conditions, knowledge politics and complex feelings that create and relay systems of racial domination. Focusing on Australia, the authors demonstrate how whiteness is fundamentally an educational project – taught within education institutions and through public discourse – in active service of the settler colonial state.
To see whiteness as learned is to recognize that it can be confronted. This book invites readers to reckon with past and present politics of education in order to imagine a future thoroughly divested from racism.
As racism persists across the world, we need to understand the role of education in sustaining white supremacy
'A defiant corrective to the attempts to deny the existence of systemic racism. Refusing the lure of easy 'solutions', it argues that education has an ongoing responsibility to open up spaces for grappling with racial injustice and imagining futures freed from racial domination'
Professor Paul Warmington, author of 'Black British Intellectuals and Education''A much-needed analysis of education for teachers, policy makers and activists interested in racial justice, serving as an important reminder that all schools within the colony operate on the sovereign land of Indigenous People. Readers are challenged to confront the colonial foundations of schooling'
Hayley McQuire, co-founder and CEO of National Indigenous Youth Education Coalition, Australia 'Fresh and bold [...] Stokes our anti-racist imagination about the possibilities of a world after whiteness'
Zeus Leonardo, Professor of Education at the University of California, BerkellÃÔ
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