Marking the "Invisible": Articulating Whiteness in Social Studies Education

788 Pages·2020·25.085 MB·English

by  Andrea M. Hawkman (editor), Sarah B. Shear (editor)

Marking the
“Invisible”
Articulating Whiteness in
Social Studies Education
A Volume in Teaching and Learning Social Studies
Series Editor
William B Russell III
University of Central Florida, COEHP
Teaching and Learning Social Studies
William B Russell III, Series Editor
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Marking the
“Invisible”
Articulating Whiteness in
Social Studies Education
edited by
Andrea M. Hawkman
Utah State University
and
Sarah B. Shear
University of Washington–Bothell
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ......................................................................................xi
Foreword—Lifting the Veil: On Decentering Whiteness in
Social Studies Curriculum, Teaching, and Research
Amanda E. Vickery and Kristen E. Duncan .......................................xiii
Introduction—Taking Responsibility, Doing the Work:
An Introduction to Marking the “Invisible”
Andrea M. Hawkman and Sarah B. Shear .........................................xxv
SECTION I: THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO
ARTICULATING WHITENESS
1. AsianCrit as a Theoretical Lens to Trouble and Transform
White Supremacy
Sohyun An...........................................................................................3
2. Extensions of Intersectionality Theory From Critical Race
Analyses: A Framework of Coalitions for Interrogating Race
and Racism in Social Studies Education
Christian D. Chan, Jehan A. Hill, and Sarah N. Baquet .....................29
3. “But I Just Never Knew!”: Theorizing and Challenging the
Ideologies of Whiteness in Social Studies
Danielle M. Walker and Peter M. Newlove .........................................55
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viii CONTENTS
SECTION II: WHITENESS AND THE OFFICIAL KNOWLEDGE
OF SOCIAL STUDIES
4. The Silences We Speak: Deliberative Pedagogies and the
Whiteness of Civic Education
Melissa Leigh Gibson .........................................................................75
5. Hope in the Dismal Science: A Race-Centered Redirection of
Economics Curriculum
Neil Shanks and Delandrea Hall ......................................................107
6. Interrogating Whiteness: A Critical Content Analysis of
Notable Picture Books Recommended by the National
Council for the Social Studies
Jacob P. Gates, Paul H. Ricks, and René M. Rodríguez-Astacio ........139
7. Where Is Race? A Critical Whiteness Studies Analysis of
NCSS Position Statements
Sara B. Demoiny ..............................................................................169
8. “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s
House”: Recognizing and Disrupting Hegemonic Practices in
the edTPA
Ritu Radhakrishnan ........................................................................191
9. “This Isn’t a Sentence in a History Book”: Students’ of Color
Resistance to Official Knowledges of Whiteness
Ryan Oto..........................................................................................217
10. The White Conundrum: White Social Studies Teachers,
Fear, and the Racial Contract
Michael L. Boucher, Jr. ....................................................................239
SECTION III: WHITENESS IN MEDIA, TEXTS, AND SPACES
11. Surpassing the Single Story: Widening the Representation of
BIWOC in an Online History Museum
Lauren Colley and John P. Broome ....................................................271
12. Unveiling Race/ism and White(ness) Supremacy Through
Historiatography
Bretton A. Varga and Vonzell Agosto .................................................299
13. White(ness) Narratives on Miscegenation: Loving v. Virginia as
a Medium for Examining Racism in the South
Lisa Brown Buchanan and Cara F. Ward .........................................327
Contents ix
14. Framework for Decentering Whiteness in Social Studies
Field Trips: Challenging the Whiteness Curriculum by
Evaluating Museums and Public Sites
Karen L. B. Burgard ........................................................................361
15. Pictures Speak Louder: Portraying Early Prominent Middle
Eastern Religious Women as “White” and “Passive” in
Textbook Imagery
Erica M. Southworth .......................................................................385
SECTION IV: WHITENESS IN K–12 CLASSROOMS
16. Navigating Difficult Knowledge But Still Evading Race:
The Overwhelming Effects of Whiteness in Doubly
Constrained Civil Rights Teaching
Jennifer Gallagher ...........................................................................427
17. “Isn’t That Enough?”: Troubling White Student Performances
of Allyship
Ryan Oto..........................................................................................453
18. “It Is Hard to Admit Your Own Group Did Wrong”:
How Whiteness Becomes Centered in the Canadian
Social Studies Classroom
Samantha Cutrara ...........................................................................477
19. Teaching Latinx-Identifying Students in a Post-Truth
America: Reflections From White-Identifying Teachers on
Bringing Non-White Identities and Experiences Into the
Classroom Through Localized Civics Curriculum
William Toledo ................................................................................509
20. White Supremacy in the Gaps of Practice: A Retroactive
Self-Study of My Antiracist Lesson
Brian C. Chervitz .............................................................................535
SECTION V: WHITENESS IN TEACHER EDUCATION
21. Whitewashing the History of Education: Laying Bare the
Pervasive Power and Presence of White Supremacy in a
Teacher Education Course
Amy Mungur ....................................................................................557