September 3rd, 2010 
Admin Undoing Whiteness in the Classroom: Critical Educultural Teaching Approaches for Social Justice Activism (Counterpoints, Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education)
At the start of the twenty-first century, government mandates and corporate practices are resulting in growing inequities in the U.S. educational field. Many view this as being driven by whiteness hegemony. Undoing Whiteness in the Classroom is a comprehensive effort to bring together, in one volume, educultural practices and teaching strategies that deconstruct whiteness hegemony, empower individuals to develop critical consciousness, and inspire them to engage in social justice activism. Through music, the visual and performing arts, narrative, and dialogue, educulturalism opens us up to becoming more aware of the oppressive cultural and institutional forces that make up whiteness hegemony. Educulturalism allows us to identify how whiteness hegemony functions to obscure the power, privilege, and practices of the dominant social elite, and reproduce inequities and inequalities within education and wider society.
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Review by Anthony Hilton for Undoing Whiteness in the Classroom: Critical Educultural Teaching Approaches for Social Justice Activism (Counterpoints, Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education)
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NO! I haven’t and I WON”T read this book! It sounds like a racist attack on whites, for heavens sake. People who don’t like whites should go back to their own part of the world and live their lives without whites. If you insist on living in a white cultural environment that you hate, then you must be a “white supremacist”, so god help you. Whites who go along with this silliness are just being traitorous to their own people. God help them, as well.
Review by Rock woman for Undoing Whiteness in the Classroom: Critical Educultural Teaching Approaches for Social Justice Activism (Counterpoints, Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education)
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Unlike the previous reviewer who has not read the text, I have read this text and therefore can accurately give my own review of the text from my perspective only (of course). I am an Australian tertiary educator teaching Australian Indigenous health to undergraduate nursing students. This text is an invaluable source of theoretical and practical information in a field which is highly specialised. For me also as a white woman, it offers a positive, affirming and non threatening path for thinking about what it might mean to be an white person who is not racist and is not condemned for being white. Thanks go to Lea and Sims for this important and positive text.