Year: 2018
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This dissertation explores the potential of harm reduction principles to illuminate and mitigate the harmful effects of Whiteness on public schooling.More specifically, this project explores the potential of harm reduction to allow White women teachers to engage the harmful effects of Whiteness in their majority-student-of-Color public secondary school classrooms.I employ critical understandings of Foucauldian power and Whiteness in order to articulate the effects of Whiteness and power -even as I rely on post-structuralist understandings of subjectivity and discourse to illuminate the ways that Whiteness and power can be neither surmounted nor overcome by individual subjects.I draw from literature on teacher identity, Critical Whiteness Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis, Foucauldian understandings of power, and Hall's framing of ideology and articulation to reimagine our theoretical and embodied understandings of White
Author: Julia R. Daniels
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2919115704