White Fatigue

Joseph E. Flynn, Jr. is an associate professor of curriculum and instruction at Northern Illinois University, and his work centers on the intersection of race, curriculum, and social justice. Previously he co-edited Rubric Nation: Critical Inquiries on the Impact of Rubrics in Education.

• Acknowledgements – Foreword by Leslie David Burns – Introduction: Notes on My Relationship with White Folks – On Talking and Learning about Race and Racism in the Obama Era and After – White fatigue: Naming the Challenge in Moving from an Individual to a Systemic Understanding of Racism – From Obama to Trump: Tripping over Post-racial America’s Intentions – The Miseducation of White Folks: The Success and Failure of the Multicultural Education Movement – Breaking Bad Habit(u)s: Considerations on the Reproduction of Worldviews – Concluding Thoughts: Promoting Racial Literacy, Standards, and Reconstructing White Folks for Social Justice – Afterword by Edward Moore Jr.

“In direct and explicit language, Joseph E. Flynn, Jr. pulls no punches in his challenge to teacher educators to dig deep into the layers of white fatigue. Such accounts are critically necessary in a moment where some whites feel emboldened to act on deeply-seated racial hatred. Where such overt acts are considered the norm, Flynn brings us closer to the subtleties that are often ignored in the current social, political, economic, and educational moment.”—David Omotoso Stovall, Professor of African American Studies and Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago