Presentation Year

2019

Depreciated Participant

Greg ChildsEnglish Undergraduate Student

College or Department

Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

Whiteness is the foundation on which academia is built. It shapes the institutions and methods of knowledge making that form what we call education. If we hope to make radical, meaningful change to our systems of learning and knowledge, a critical step will be decentering whiteness. This project uses the work of James Baldwin to conceptualize whiteness and examines rhetorical genre theory as an example of the ways academia's systems of knowledge making are based in the assumptions of whiteness.

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Yes

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711

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