1st Edition
Critical Philosophy of Race and Education
Introduction
Judith Suissa and Darren Chetty
1. Is there such a thing as ‘white ignorance’ in British education?
Zara Bain
2. Knowledge and racial violence: the shine and shadow of ‘powerful knowledge’
Sophie Rudolph, Arathi Sriprakash and Jessica Gerrard
3. Racism as ‘Reasonableness’: Philosophy for Children and the Gated Community of Inquiry
Darren Chetty
4. Reconstructing a ‘Dilemma’ of racial identity education
Winston C. Thompson
5. Teacher-led codeswitching: Adorno, race, contradiction, and the nature of autonomy
Jack Bicker
6. Affect, race, and white discomfort in schooling: decolonial strategies for ‘pedagogies of discomfort’
Michalinos Zembylas
7. Race, pre-college philosophy, and the pursuit of a critical race pedagogy for higher education
Melissa Fitzpatrick and Amy Reed-Sandoval
8. On intellectual diversity and differences that may not make a difference
Kristie Dotson
9. Whiteliness and institutional racism: hiding behind (un)conscious bias
Shirley Anne Tate and Damien Page
Biography
Judith Suissa is Professor of Philosophy of Education at UCL Institute of Education, London, UK. Her research interests are in political and moral philosophy, with a focus on anarchist theory, questions of social justice, radical and libertarian educational traditions, utopian theory, the role of the state, and the parent-child relationship. Her publications include Anarchism and Education: A Philosophical Perspective (2006) and The Claims of Parenting: Reasons, Responsibility and Society (with Stefan Ramaekers, 2012).
Darren Chetty is a Teaching Fellow at University College London, UK. He has published academic work on philosophy, education, racism, children’s literature, and hip-hop culture. He is a contributor to The Good Immigrant (edited by Nikesh Shukla, 2016) and he co-authored What Is Masculinity? Why Does It Matter? And Other Big Questions (with Jeffrey Boakye, 2019). Darren tweets @rapclassroom
