Whiteness, Pedagogy, Performance: Dis/Placing Race - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0739114638 ISBN 13: 9780739114636

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2008

Synopsis

Whiteness, Pedagogy, Performance is unique in bringing together these three important topics in the context of communication teaching and scholarship with an eye toward interdisciplinary perspectives. In fourteen chapters, the leading whiteness scholars in the field of communication analyze the process of teaching and learning and the complicated intersections of whiteness, racial identity, and crossracial dialogue.

About this title

About the Author:

Leda M. Cooks is associate professor of communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Jennifer S. Simpson is associate professor of drama and speech communication at the University of Waterloo.

Review:

Whiteness,Pedagogy, Performance is an important book at a time when talking about race is growing more urgent, when a shift in race consciousness is becoming increasingly more necessary, when pressures increasingly mount to neutralize or erase race, or when white privilege is denied or minimalized. While we should avoid placing white people at the center of our discussions on race, we nevertheless need to locate how whiteness is implicated in reproducing relations of oppression and exploitation and the global division of labor and in the creation of laboring bodies within the larger totality of capitalist social relations. Whiteness, Pedagogy, Performance is a book that can provide educators with a valuable weapon in the struggle for social and economic justice. (Peter McLaren, Honorary Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Critical Studies, Northeast Normal University, China)

This edited book is innovative, well organized, and clear. (PsycCRITIQUES, March 2008)

For those interested in the doings of whiteness, this text asks and then tries to answer a series of important questions: How does the performance of whiteness infuse our pedagogy and classroom interactions? In what ways and with what effects does whiteness inform our field and the ways in which we construct, think about, and study communication? What sorts of strategies might we adopt to disrupt the normative functioning of whiteness in these venues? This edited volume gives insight into these questions and more. An important addition to the growing communication scholarship on the performance of whiteness. (Dreama G. Moon, associate professor of communication, Cal State San Marcos)

About this edition

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0739114638
• ISBN 13: 9780739114636
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Cooks Leda M., Simpson Jennifer S.