Excavating Whiteness

Julie L. Pennington is professor of literacy studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.Cynthia H. Brock is professor at the University of Wyoming where she holds the Wyoming Excellence in Higher Education Endowed Chair in Literacy Education.Elavie Ndura is a professor of education at the University of Washington Tacoma.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Opportunities for Learning About RaceChapter 2: Surface ExplorationsChapter 3: Sharing the Artifacts of Community IntersectionsChapter 4: Establishing Common Ground Through DisequilibriumChapter 5: Archeological ToolsChapter 6: Examining the Ruins: Unearthing WhitenessChapter 7: Cataloging ArtifactsChapter 8: Excavating the Layered Sediment of the SelfChapter 9: Rising from the RuinsAppendixReferencesAbout the Authors

Excavating Whiteness is unique in its focus on a cohort of teachers and teacher educators and their relationships with one another across time and opportunities for learning about themselves and others through intensive workshops and day-long sessions across several months. This volume centers raw teacher voices doing the hard—and sometimes messy, exhausting, confusing, heart wrenching—work of excavating, interrogating, and grappling with race, racialized identities, and whiteness. The careful ethnographic approach of authors Pennington, Brock and Ndura stands in sharp contrast to studies that present deficit-driven narratives of teachers based on limited interactions. This book is a terrific resource for teachers and teacher educators who seek to further their own opportunities for learning about and challenging whiteness.