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Education Professor: Whiteness is a "Disease"
iOTW Report ^ | 11/11/15 | Aurelius

Posted on 11/11/2015 9:38:17 AM PST by rightistight

In a scholarly article published in Teaching Education, Professor Cheryl Matias calls whiteness "a disease," while suggesting new ways to teach urban students about "racism and whiteness."

Dr. Matias is an assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver. Her article, Why do you make me hate myself?: Re-Teaching Whiteness, Abuse, and Love in Urban Teacher Education, was published in Teaching Education this year.

In her article, Matias writes that teachers must address "normalized, oppressive Whiteness," saying that a "colorblind" society cannot truly exist in the United States. "Despite silently acknowledging that race plays a role in" achievement gaps, writes Matias, "the study of race, racism, and exertions of Whiteness are rarely recognized as a substantive issue in teacher education and the teaching profession."

Racism and whiteness are diseases that need to be addressed, she continues, writing, "We cannot even begin to address symptoms, such as the racial achievement gap, if we do not address the underlying diseases of racism and Whiteness."

There isn't even an argument that white supremacy exists, Matias writes, saying she won't even bother to prove the concept during her paper.

"This article acknowledges White supremacy as an overarching system of white Western racial domination, which manifests globally," she explains. "We are all operating under the system of white supremacy."

Teachers must examine their own "whiteness," Dr. Matias argues. "As the only person of color in the room," she explains, "I am often left with the pain of being denied a racial reality. Thus, the cycle of abuse is a pyrrhic victory, one where the pain and tears of whites override my own pain."

Indeed, she writes, "DiAngelo (2011) argued that white fragility plays an essential role in the maintenance of Whiteness and when unfettered, the consequences can be dire."

Education has been biased in favor of "whites," Dr. Matias goes on. "Teacher education - replete with a majority of white stakeholders who write the curricula, program frameworks, assessments, and standards - has permitted Whiteness to become a white enterprise.

“Worse yet, some white teachers and teacher educators co-opt and redefine theories first conceptualized by scholars of color who were resisting the hegemonic oppression of Whiteness,” she continues. “In using their white ocular to filter out the most radical parts of these theories to fit within white color-blind comforts,the essence of their conception is lost.”

In the end, "Once teacher education understands how and why whites have become culturally white, it can engage in a deeper conversation of race and racism, move beyond guilt, anger, and denial needed to become whole-heartedly antiracist."


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: education; race; racist
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1 posted on 11/11/2015 9:38:18 AM PST by rightistight
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To: rightistight

Education Professor is an oxymoron.
Populated mostly by those identidied as the latter.
Remember, Bill Ayers has a doctorate in education, I believe.
QED


2 posted on 11/11/2015 9:40:39 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: rightistight

As the only racist in the room...


3 posted on 11/11/2015 9:41:05 AM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: rightistight

Sorry, this is drivel. My whiteness card has been punched so many times, I’m all out of guilt.


4 posted on 11/11/2015 9:41:56 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: rightistight

This is hard core racism. This woman is a nasty bigot. It is a travesty that she is involved in a teacher education program and that she is teaching anywhere.


5 posted on 11/11/2015 9:42:55 AM PST by Essie
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To: rightistight

If “whiteness” is a disease, I call on people of color all over the world to immediately cease using anything invented, created or produced by white people.


6 posted on 11/11/2015 9:43:57 AM PST by Maceman
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To: Da Coyote

Most education master’s require no thesis, and most education Ph.D.s require no dissertation.


7 posted on 11/11/2015 9:45:39 AM PST by struggle
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To: rightistight
In her article, Matias writes that teachers must address "normalized, oppressive Whiteness," saying that a "colorblind" society cannot truly exist in the United States.

If a colorblind society cannot exist, then what is the incentive to try and create it? She hasn't thought this through, clearly.

If a white will be accused as racist no matter my conduct, what benefit does colorblind conduct bring? Further, what detriment does racist behavior bring? She is promulgating that she does not want whites and blacks to get along, but only if she gets to set the parameters.

That dog won't hunt.

8 posted on 11/11/2015 9:46:14 AM PST by MortMan (The rule of law is now the law of rulings - Judicial, IRS, EPA...)
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9 posted on 11/11/2015 9:46:36 AM PST by PROCON (Proud CRUZader!)
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To: rightistight
"I am often left with the pain of being denied a racial reality. Thus, the cycle of abuse is a pyrrhic victory, one where the pain and tears of whites override my own pain."

I can write drivel like this with a random number generator and a list of phrases. And it will sound a bit less silly.

10 posted on 11/11/2015 9:46:55 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: rightistight

This is the SAME crap that Hitler and his gang spewed about Jews.

We need to consider the ends of that campaign before considering any tolerance toward this one.


11 posted on 11/11/2015 9:47:16 AM PST by joethedrummer
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To: 17th Miss Regt

What a steaming pantload of an article. I skimmed it after following the link and not only is it racist uber-academic twaddle it is also terrible written.

I feel like correcting the grammar in it with a red pen and mailing it back to her.

Whats more, this woman is an utter black racist who is being paid at a public university, probably with Coloradans hard-earned tax dollars.

I think some letters and emails to the upper level of that university need to be sent.

We have to start fighting back and stop rolling over for this crap.


12 posted on 11/11/2015 9:50:37 AM PST by LizardQueen (The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone.)
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To: rightistight

I’m sick of people that sit around a whine like a bunch of babies. Leave! GTFO! If you’re so miserable of living off the fruits of our western whiteness, go to where you feel less oppressed by our success.


13 posted on 11/11/2015 9:50:53 AM PST by IamConservative (There is no greater threat to our freedoms than Bipartisanship.)
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To: rightistight

>>saying that a “colorblind” society cannot truly exist in the United States

Good! I’m all for giving up trying.

So, in the Progressive mind: Whiteness is a disease. Homosexuality is not. Gender is only a social construct but a being a proud, independent woman is a virtue. Islam is a religion of peace, but Christianity is a cult of death and persecution.

I look forward to the day when Progs are classified as varmint with no seasons or bag limits.


14 posted on 11/11/2015 9:51:10 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: rightistight

She is more than welcome to move her hateful self back to Africa.


15 posted on 11/11/2015 9:57:23 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: rightistight
replete with a majority of white stakeholders who write the curricula, program frameworks, assessments, and standards

But, if we wrote the curriculum to her standards, people would be reduced to grunting, pointing, and eating grubs in a couple of generations.

High standards are racist, apparently.

16 posted on 11/11/2015 9:58:05 AM PST by wbill
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To: rightistight

Raciss-ass bitch.


17 posted on 11/11/2015 9:58:50 AM PST by Maceman
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"This article acknowledges White supremacy as an overarching system of white Western racial domination, which manifests globally," she explains. "We are all operating under the system of white supremacy."

So she is saying that "white" dominates culture and has shown itself superior everywhere on earth. That is to say white men have written the novels, composed the symphonies, painted the paintings, invented the inventions, dreamed the philosophies, found the cures and generally lead the way for the advancement of life on Earth. And rather than emulate the recipe of their success, she wants to destroy success so that a losers who don't want to follow the path to a successful life don't feel so bad.

18 posted on 11/11/2015 10:00:25 AM PST by DaveyB (Live free or die!)
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To: rightistight

It’s getting to be a very, very racist society, worse than in the early 20th century. One race is being held down by the Man. Not allowed to enjoy the same rights, kept from attaining prosperity, made to feel shame for existing.


19 posted on 11/11/2015 10:03:15 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: rightistight
saying that a "colorblind" society cannot truly exist in the United State

They should be very careful about making this argument: if a majority of white Americans come to agree with this assessment, it would make a dead letter of most of the civil rights statutes.

20 posted on 11/11/2015 10:04:05 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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