Learning Whiteness: Education and the Settler Colonial State Sriprakash Arathi
Learning Whiteness: Education and the Settler Colonial State Sriprakash Arathi Whiteness is not innate - it is learned. Rather, they are forged and sustained in social and political life. The systems…
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Learning Whiteness: Education and the Settler Colonial State Sriprakash Arathi
Whiteness is not innate - it is learned. Rather, they are forged and sustained in social and political life. The systems of white domination that prevail across the world are not pregiven or natural.
Focusing on Australia, the authors demonstrate how whiteness is fundamentally an educational project - taught within education institutions and through public discourse - in active service of the settler colonial state. Learning Whiteness examines the material conditions, knowledge politics and complex feelings that create and relay systems of racial domination. To see whiteness as learned is to recognize that it can be confronted.
This book invites readers to reckon with past and present politics of education in order to imagine a future thoroughly divested from