{"id":43848,"date":"2015-11-08T20:24:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T20:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43848"},"modified":"2015-11-08T20:24:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T20:24:46","slug":"why-i-teach-about-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43848","title":{"rendered":"Why I teach about Whiteness."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raceandreflection.com\/blog\/why-i-teach-about-whiteness\" target=\"_blank\">Why I teach about Whiteness.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raceandreflection.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Race and Reflection<\/a><br \/>\n2015-11-08<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/directory\/person\/1761453\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lee Bebout<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>Arizona State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I will be teaching \u201cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whiteness_studies\" target=\"_blank\">whiteness<\/a> class\u201d in a few weeks, and it seems like a good time to reflect on where I\u2019ve been and where we\u2019re going. Last spring was simultaneously a headache and a joy. I received <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/7\/24\/9023721\/white-whiteness-race-identity\" target=\"_blank\">national media attention<\/a>, became the focus of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neo-Nazism\" target=\"_blank\">neo-Nazi<\/a> vitriol, and was asked not to respond to the media. But the class was great. One of those invigorating experiences that remind you why you became a professor: 19 of us gathered each week, committed to an in-depth interrogation of how race is made, experienced, and resisted.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, many folks asked me why I teach critical <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whiteness_studies\" target=\"_blank\">whiteness studies<\/a>. I was not speaking openly to the media, so I often could not answer. For those who asked and for myself, here is my answer: I do the work I do because racial inequality is a very real problem in the US and globally&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raceandreflection.com\/blog\/why-i-teach-about-whiteness\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I teach about Whiteness. Race and Reflection 2015-11-08 Lee Bebout, Associate Professor of English Arizona State University I will be teaching \u201cthe whiteness class\u201d in a few weeks, and it seems like a good time to reflect on where I\u2019ve been and where we\u2019re going. Last spring was simultaneously a headache and a joy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,394,20],"tags":[21821,21820],"class_list":["post-43848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-lee-bebout","tag-race-and-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43850,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43848\/revisions\/43850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}