Visible whiteness: coming to terms with white racial identities

Hickey, Andrew and Austin, Jon (2009) Visible whiteness: coming to terms with white racial identities. International Journal of the Humanities, 7 (2). pp. 13-26. ISSN 1447-9508

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[Abstract]: White racial identities are a largely unrecognized identity location. With race having become one of the key defining features of contemporary society, a considerable body of work has recently emerged exploring white dominant racial identity and identification. This paper reports on work undertaken with a group of middle-years high school students in Queensland Australia, and charts a course for understanding and coming to terms with whiteness. Emphasis is placed upon the description and critical analysis of signifiers of race present in the physical environment and how these come to provide reference points for understanding race. Through the application of a visual ethnographic methodology that engaged the research participants as active creators of knowledge, this paper explores some of the implications of race and whiteness and offers ideas for how an emancipatory view of race might be achieved.

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Item Type:	Article (Commonwealth Reporting Category C)
Refereed:	Yes
Item Status:	Live Archive
Additional Information:	Deposited in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Authors retain copyright. Readers must contact Common Ground for permission to reproduce. COMMON GROUND PUBLISHING PO Box 463, Altona, Victoria, 3018, Australia. http://www.CommonGroundPublishing.com
Faculty / Department / School:	Historic - Faculty of Education
Date Deposited:	06 Oct 2009 23:55
Last Modified:	07 Jul 2014 06:43
Uncontrolled Keywords:	race, ethnicity, racial awareness, anti-racist pedagogies, criticality, critical citizenship
Fields of Research :	16 Studies in Human Society > 1608 Sociology > 160809 Sociology of Education
Socio-Economic Objective:	C Society > 95 Cultural Understanding > 9599 Other Cultural Understanding > 959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified
URI:	http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/5615

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