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Working Through Whiteness: International Perspectivesreviewed by Kathy Hytten - 2003 Title: Working Through Whiteness: International Perspectives Author(s): Cynthia Levine-Rasky (Editor) Publisher: State University of New York Press, Albany ISBN: 0-7914-5340-5, Pages: 363, Year: 2002 Search for book at Amazon.com Over the past decade there has been a proliferation of work in
whiteness studies. In large part this has been a response to
the call by scholars of color for whites to locate ourselves as
racialized subjects, and to see how our whiteness significantly
impacts the way we see the world. This work in whiteness
studies has gone in many different theoretical directions, and
spans a variety of disciplines and genres.
Cynthia Levine-Rasky locates her new edited collection,
Working Through Whiteness: International Perspectives
within this body of research, offering that all the contributors in
her collection share a commitment to “interrogating whiteness
as a problematic and complex category that has too long avoided
naming itself as [a] powerful participant in an inequitable social
order” (p. 13). While the dimensions of whiteness
studies investigated by the authors in this collection
significantly overlap, and concurrently reinforce, much of the
existing body of whiteness literature, the unique contribution that
Levine-Rasky posits are the international contexts, which provide
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- Kathy Hytten
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale E-mail Author Kathy Hytten is an Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University. She teaches courses in philosophy and sociology of education. Her research interests are in cultural studies, critical pedagogy, education for social justice, and whiteness studies. She recently published “Thinking through a Pedagogy of Whiteness” in Educational Theory (with Amee Adkins), and has a forthcoming article in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (with John Warren) based upon a critical ethnography of the reproduction of whiteness in education, entitled “Engaging Whiteness: How Racial Power Gets Reified in Education.”
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