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Unhooking from Whiteness pp 35–46Cite as

Resisting The Esprit De Corps

White Challenging Whiteness

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In the age of the Obama presidency many claim we live in a post-racial society. For social justice pre-service teacher educators, the mythical “post-racial” context has created a certain death for socio-cultural foundations (SCF) of education as well as culturally relevant approaches to teacher education. Simultaneously the virulent racism of the past has been replaced with what we might call “racism 2.0,” a less direct but equally problematic set of engagements with race, hiding behind the thin veil of politically correct language.

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  1. Illinois State University, USA

    Nicholas D. Hartlep

  2. University of La Verne, USA

    Cleveland Hayes

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Fasching-Varner, K.J. (2016). Resisting The Esprit De Corps. In: Hartlep, N.D., Hayes, C. (eds) Unhooking from Whiteness. Constructing Knowledge. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-527-2_4

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