“And her death filled her with great plentitude”: Whiteness, erasure, and racialized schooling

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Studies in Symbolic Interaction

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Title:	“And her death filled her with great plentitude”: Whiteness, erasure, and racialized schooling
Author(s):	Myra Margolin
Volume:	34 Editor(s): Norman K. Denzin ISBN: 978-1-84950-960-2 eISBN: 978-1-84950-961-9
Citation:	Myra Margolin (2010), “And her death filled her with great plentitude”: Whiteness, erasure, and racialized schooling, in Norman K. Denzin (ed.) Studies in Symbolic Interaction (Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Volume 34), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.239-259
DOI:	10.1108/S0163-2396(2010)0000034016 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Abstract:	Whiteness. We appropriate the word to erase it. We laugh – ha, ha – whiteness. I begin with my experiences as a white, upper-middle class girl raised up in a racist and racialized educational system. This authoethnography revolves around an epiphanic moment resulting from the impact of years of involvement in this system. I look at various ways educational practices that are meant to alleviate pain, inequity, and a legacy of racism can function to allow white people to distance ourselves from the ugliness of privilege, silence criticism, perpetuate inequity, and, ultimately, limit human growth and connection.