Loving Whiteness to Death

Matias, Cheryl E.

doi:10.1007/978-94-6300-450-3_4

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“…White lady tears at anything that might be slightly uncomfortable (see, e.g., Matias, 2016)-one white woman said she felt "unwelcome, threatened, forced" at voluntary meetings in which we . .…”

Section: Discursive Damnation: Damnation As Scriptsmentioning

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Well, I’ll Be Damned: Living Differently in White Bodies

Sheridan

McManimon

2023

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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As two white women attempting to live differently in white bodies we are damned. Any choice we make is embedded in white supremacy. Damned if we do/speak/act, damned if we don’t. Recognizing this damnation, we began asking where else we could go and how else we could live. In this article, we conceptualize what emerges between “damned if I do, damned if I don’t” as the possibility of disordering whiteness and living differently. We conceptualize our method in this piece as relationship. In relationship, we trace the necessary but impossible, discursive, embodied, and geographic space that is damnation.

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Section: Discursive Damnation: Damnation As Scriptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Well, I’ll Be Damned: Living Differently in White Bodies

Sheridan

McManimon

2023

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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“…CWS is transdisciplinary and grounded in critical race theory, to interrogate the function of whiteness in society and how persons internalize, embody, and enact whiteness (Matias, 2016). Whiteness scholars distinguish between hegemonic whiteness and White people, recognizing whiteness as micro-, meso-, and macro-level phenomena.…”

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“…Then, they work in their groups to develop a tentative response to the research question, discussing how observational data can help to contextualize theory. In doctoral training, an observational assignment follows this exercise, where students spend an extended period at a field site of their choice, incorporating critical race (Delgado & Stefancic, 2017) and critical whiteness (Matias, 2016) into data collection.…”

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“…Critical race and whiteness scholars define whiteness as a multifaceted ideology ingrained in the United States (see Cabrera et al, 2017 for a review). Whiteness, includes and extends racial identity, has structural dimensions grounded in psychological, social, and economic-material processes (Matias, 2016). Hegemonically, whiteness maintains and constrains cultural practices, values, and attitudes by determining what is normative and simultaneously invisibilizing and naturalizing white supremacy (Sue, 2017).…”

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Integrating Qualitative Inquiry and Critical Whiteness in Psychology Research Methods Courses

Jordan

2022

Teaching of Psychology

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Introduction This paper merges two neglected components within the psychological sciences broadly and research methods courses specifically: Critical whiteness and qualitative methodologies. Statement of the Problem In psychology programs, regardless of discipline, research courses remain one area where issues of race and racism, such as critical whiteness, are deemphasized. Similarly, methods courses rarely integrate qualitative inquiry and critical theory. Literature Review First, I briefly review the relevant literature on the state of qualitative research in psychology. I then discuss critical whiteness, contextualizing the idea of whiteness, before moving into a review of the current research on whiteness in psychology. Teaching Implications I present three experiential learning activities that further students’ skill development in qualitative methods while learning about three specific aspects of whiteness. Practicing observations, photovoice, and qualitative coding, students can reflect on the pervasiveness of white culture, colorblind racism, and racial microaggressions. Conclusion The activities described in this article provide instructors one avenue to engage various aspects of whiteness and qualitative methods, phenomena routinely overlooked in graduate training.

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“…In this diffractive moment, our thinking-with tracks to college student development scholars working to step differently into critical theoretical discourses (Abes et al, 2019), even as developmental discourses (still) dominate and direct much of the field's foundational knowledge production practices (Smithers & Eaton, 2017). We follow a diffractive current produced by plugging Rory's story into critical race (Harris & Poon, 2019) "third wave" theorizing, sensing a pattern reverberating through hers' and other Life Lines participants' persistent absences of explicit expressions about ways that personal and institutional discourses of race participate in their (white) subjective formation (Matias, 2016). Reading critical whiteness theories, premised upon Black and other scholars of colors' conceptualizations of racist social formations, we re-turn Rory's productively interfering question: "What do I have to hold onto if it's not that image?"…”

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Deploying the Line to Study Young Adults’ Material-Discursive Identity Work and Its Slippery-Sticky Attachments to Developmentalism: A Diffractive Analysis

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Becker

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2022

Qualitative Inquiry

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This article shares what surfaced during diffractive analysis of data from a participatory arts-engaged research project called Life Lines. Drawing on material feminism, studio-inquiry practices were designed to assist young adults in creatively speculating alongside researchers over varied conceptualizations of identity, including dominant explanations centering on cognitive development and alternative framings emphasizing materiality’s role in subjective formation. Lines as both culturally inscriptive “engines of theory” and as materially sensitive artistic inquiry practices were enlisted to open new insights about how it is for young adult bodies to sustain developmentalism’s “cruel optimism” about coherence, stability, and progression.

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Loving Whiteness to Death

Cited by 44 publications

References 26 publications

Well, I’ll Be Damned: Living Differently in White Bodies

Well, I’ll Be Damned: Living Differently in White Bodies

Integrating Qualitative Inquiry and Critical Whiteness in Psychology Research Methods Courses

Deploying the Line to Study Young Adults’ Material-Discursive Identity Work and Its Slippery-Sticky Attachments to Developmentalism: A Diffractive Analysis

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