I definitely agree that they will need to learn how to talk about whiteness without recentering whiteness. There definitely needs to be more language and a revisit to scholars that have done this work.
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I’m also thinking about how whiteness as a social construct is being taught in seminars. And how academia was (is) built to support and applaud white scholars when they write about whiteness or BIPOC , yet scholars-of-color,many times, arent recognized for the same types of work
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I've been asking myself the same ?? On one hand, *need* talk about whiteness/WS as foundational to my field (medieval studies) & how that conditions the field's demographics, assumptions, approaches, (mis)uses... but at the same time, can you decenter something by centering it?
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auto ethnography should be a thing for everyone. I find explanations of one's white situatedness quite useful.
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I would think the place to start is with citations. I go out of my way to cite scholars of colour in my work on whiteness. I also think people who do this work need to develop a competency with critical race theory before they start claiming expertise about race
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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I think it’s easy to have a conversation as a white scholar and NOT have it center around whiteness. Our entire culture is built on this element of shame that purposefully avoids the topic. So, when we’re challenged with it and faced with our whiteness, we find it jarring 1/2
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But, if we acknowledge that racist rhetoric is present and our whiteness, then we can share our experiences with scholars of color. This can have a impact on academia by amending a system that’s inherently white. We can invite others to the conversation.
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I’m reading the we/our here to mean white people. And I agree, the unremarked way whiteness functions and is always there needs to be addressed by white people. They don’t necessarily need to position themselves as suddenly discovering it though.
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I think that one place where centering whiteness is appropriate is in a discussion about whiteness.
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Interrogating and centering are not the same thing. There are ways that some work fetishize rather than dismantle it, Hillbilly Elegy comes to mind here.
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