Abstract
In “Racial Politics and the Pedagogy of Whiteness,” (1997), Henry A. Giroux writes:
The new ethnicity defines racial identities as multiple, porous, complex, and shifting, and in doing so, creates a theoretical opening for educators and students to move beyond framing whiteness as either good or bad, racially innocent or intractably racist. In this context, whiteness can be addressed through its complex relationship with other determining factors that usurp any claim to racial purity or singularity. (312)
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Rard, D. (2008). Resisting the Straight White Male as Hero/Protagonist in a Course on American Groups in American Films. In: Guerrero, L. (eds) Teaching Race in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230616950_14
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