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This chapter uses autobiography to examine the construction of White identities and their implications for anti-racist pedagogy. By reflecting on the development of my own understanding of race, racism and the role of Whiteness, first as a child in rural Ontario, then as a youth in a period of national liberation, as a young traveller, a gay activist and finally as an educator, I hope to cast some light on the development of individual White identities in Canada.
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Mccaskell, T. (2015). Before I Was White I Was Presbyterian. In: Lund, D.E., Carr, P.R. (eds) Revisiting The Great White North?. Transgressions, vol 105. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-869-5_4
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