School Without Racism? How White Teachers in Germany Practice Anti-Racialism

This qualitative study investigates how white teachers at a German Catholic comprehensive school conceptualize issues of “race” and racism in the context of being a “School without Racism – School with Courage” (SOR-SMC). By collecting signatures and exhibiting yearly projects, more than 3,300 schoo...

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Autor principal:	Hanna Maria Burhoff
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Publicado:	Dalhousie University Libraries 2021
Materias:	whiteness racism critical race theory identity germany education Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology GN301-674
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:624b3e3ba78049e693821b65a6d408d32021-11-29T13:45:48ZSchool Without Racism? How White Teachers in Germany Practice Anti-Racialism2369-872110.15273/jue.v11i3.11240https://doaj.org/article/624b3e3ba78049e693821b65a6d408d32021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ojs.library.dal.ca/JUE/article/view/11240https://doaj.org/toc/2369-8721This qualitative study investigates how white teachers at a German Catholic comprehensive school conceptualize issues of “race” and racism in the context of being a “School without Racism – School with Courage” (SOR-SMC). By collecting signatures and exhibiting yearly projects, more than 3,300 schools in Germany brand their school to be “without racism”. I found the branding of my researched school to be a form of “anti-racialism” that opposed “race” and racism as concepts but did not tackle any underlying racist structures (Goldberg 2009, 10). The teachers I interviewed took the SOR-SMC branding for granted and assumed that the school was racism-free. They thereby engaged in silent racism and reproduced racist connotations and structures without challenging them (Trepagnier 2001). Being anti -racist is not accomplished by declaring a school as racism-free. Instead, white teachers need to understand that anti-racism involves a deeper engagement with the structures that keep “racial” inequality in place (Goldberg 2009, 10).Hanna Maria BurhoffDalhousie University Librariesarticlewhitenessracismcritical race theoryidentitygermanyeducationEthnology. Social and cultural anthropologyGN301-674ENThe Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography, Vol 11, Iss 3, Pp 3-20 (2021)
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description	This qualitative study investigates how white teachers at a German Catholic comprehensive school conceptualize issues of “race” and racism in the context of being a “School without Racism – School with Courage” (SOR-SMC). By collecting signatures and exhibiting yearly projects, more than 3,300 schools in Germany brand their school to be “without racism”. I found the branding of my researched school to be a form of “anti-racialism” that opposed “race” and racism as concepts but did not tackle any underlying racist structures (Goldberg 2009, 10). The teachers I interviewed took the SOR-SMC branding for granted and assumed that the school was racism-free. They thereby engaged in silent racism and reproduced racist connotations and structures without challenging them (Trepagnier 2001). Being anti -racist is not accomplished by declaring a school as racism-free. Instead, white teachers need to understand that anti-racism involves a deeper engagement with the structures that keep “racial” inequality in place (Goldberg 2009, 10).
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