The Paradoxes of Dismantling Racism and White Privilege
If you just clicked on a link and are reading this, you are experiencing one of the paradoxes of dismantling racism and white privilege because by writing this and making it available across the Internet, I have centered my whiteness and the voice of (yet another) man.
As a white man, I simultaneously have an ethical obligation to dismantle racism and white privilege (and gender inequity) that sits in contrast to another ethical obligation that I (to cite a group of white men) need to STFU and not occupy the spaces where Black and women’s voices must be centered and embraced.
My scholarship and public work have for many years now been focused on class, gender, and race inequity, especially as they intersect with formal education.
Any credibility in addressing racism and white privilege that I have earned comes from my critical unpacking of my own whiteness and of my racist heritage in my home and community of birth, but I also have manufactured a greater level of racial awareness by reading and listening to Black voices—notably Black artists/writers and Black scholars.
My teaching seeks always to center Black voices and the voices of women, CONTINUE READING: The Paradoxes of Dismantling Racism and White Privilege – radical eyes for equity
