Whiteness, Pedagogy, and Youth in America
Critical Whiteness Studies in the Classroom
Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity Series

This book employs a narrative approach to recount and interpret the story of an innovative teaching and learning project about whiteness. By offering a first-hand description of a nationally-recognized, high school-based Youth Participatory Action Research project?The Whiteness Project?this book draws out the conflicts and complexities at the core of white students? racial identities. Critical of the essentializing frameworks traditionally given to address white privilege, this volume advances a distinctive and theoretically robust account of ?second-wave critical whiteness pedagogy?.

Introduction: Growing Up White

Chapter One: Whiteness and Teaching and Learning about Whiteness

Chapter Two: The Fall – Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)

Chapter Three: The Winter – Playbuilding

Chapter Four: The Spring – Producing the Play

Chapter Five: Aftermath – Toward a Second Wave of Critical Whiteness Pedagogy

Conclusion: White People Growing Up

Appendices

Samuel Jaye Tanner is Assistant Professor of Literacy Education at The Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, USA.