Conference presentation
Dismantling (Fe)Male "Whiteness" in Teaching Spaces: The "Bloody Black Bitch" and the "Race Traitor" Get Bagels
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference, 2017 (San Antonio, United States, 27-Apr-2017–01-May-2017)
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
2017
Abstract
The ideological presence of “whiteness” has always dominated not just the political discourses of most postcolonial societies, but also everyday individual discourses of the subjects within these spaces. We draw upon our experiences as academics in Australia, who choose to stay outside the discourses of power attached to “whiteness.” More specifically, we use our everyday narratives as data, to theorize and trouble the hegemony of “whiteness” in spaces that claim to have cleansed their “race” politics. With the use of Critical Race and Subaltern theories, we also highlight how we are silenced by the power of “whiteness.” As we repeatedly strive to challenge the dominance of “whiteness” in our spaces, we are classified as outcasts due to either our identity or our ideological preferences, by those who resist letting go of their clutch on “white” power. We argue how even our positions of power within the academic environment fail to offer us any protection from ‘“whiteness” attacks, and thereby stimulate conversations with a hope to dismantle the hegemony of “whiteness.” Thus, we narrate how our positions of marginality are repeatedly scrutinized and sanctioned, despite our repeated attempts to disrupt the historical privilege that “whiteness” still holds in these postcolonial spaces. United by this counter-hegemonic quest, we speak as (fe)male voices to surface the discourses of “white” dominance, and make available some of the counter-discourses that can redistribute power through our conscious solidarity. [Note: References available upon request.]
Details
- Title
- Dismantling (Fe)Male "Whiteness" in Teaching Spaces: The "Bloody Black Bitch" and the "Race Traitor" Get Bagels
- Authors
- Marc Pruyn (Author) - Monash UniversityPrasanna Srinivasan - Monash University
- Conference details
- American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference, 2017 (San Antonio, United States, 27-Apr-2017–01-May-2017)
- Publisher
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- Date published
- 2017
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991171944202621
- Output Type
- Conference presentation
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