Rewriting the discourse of racial identity: Towards a pedagogy and politics of whiteness
Rewriting the discourse of racial identity: Towards a pedagogy and politics of whiteness
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DOI：
10.17763/haer.67.2.r4523gh4176677u8
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发表时间：
1997-06-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Giroux, HA
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作者：
Giroux, HA
在这篇文章中，亨利·吉鲁将白人的研究置于历史的语境中，承认了保守的思想家和试图扩大种族和权力讨论的批评家们利用种族身份的各种节点。作者还指出了目前关于白人的学术研究的局限性。尽管这一学术成功地扩展了对种族的研究，将白人作为一种历史、文化和政治结构来研究，但它并没有显示出在公共领域解构白人的解放潜力。通过对两部种族叙事截然不同的电影《危险的心灵》和《缝合线》的分析，作者提供了一个批判性讨论的可能性的例子；在课堂上，种族和民族在媒体中的表现。通过这样的讨论，不同种族和民族的学生可以反思自己和他人的代表性，以及白人作为主要参照物的地位。有必要对白人进行理论化和讨论，以认识到批评的可能性，以及白人学生认识到自己在争取社会变革和反种族主义社会的斗争中的机构和合法地位的可能性。
In this article, Henry Giroux places the study of Whiteness in a historical context, recognizing the various ?nodes in which racial identity has been used by conservative ideologues and critical scholars who seek to expand the discussion of race and power The author also points out the limitations of the current scholarship on Whiteness. Although this scholarship has successfully expanded the study of race to include the study of Whiteness as a historical, cultural, and political construction, it has not shown the liberating potential of deconstructing Whiteness in the public sphere. With an analysis of Dangerous Minds and Suture, two movies with contrasting narratives of race, the author provides an example of the possibilities for critically discussing; in a classroom, the representation of race and ethnicity in the media. Through such a discussion, students of different races and ethnicities can reflect on the representation of themselves and others and the position of Whiteness as the dominant referent. There is a need for Whiteness to be theorized and discussed in a manner that recognizes the potential for criticism, as well as the possibility for White students to recognize their own agency and legitimate place within the struggle for social change and an anti-racist society.