Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 2005

Publication Title

The Philosophical Forum

Volume

36

Issue

3

Abstract

The article re-examines racial and ethnic identity within the context of pedagogical attempts to instill a positive white identity in white students who are conscious of the history of white racism and white privilege. The paper draws heavily from whiteness studies and developmental cognitive science in arguing (against Henry Giroux and Stuart Hall) that a positive notion of white identity, however postmodern its construction, is an oxymoron, since whiteness designates less a cultural/ethnic ethos and meaningful way of life than a pathological structure of privilege and narrowminded cognitive habitus.

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Author Posting. © Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Wiley-Blackwell for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in The Philosophical Forum, Volume 36, Issue 3, Fall 2005, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9191.2005.00203.x.

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