Whiteness Interrupted: White Teachers and Racial Identity in Predominantly Black Schools

by Marcus Bell

In Whiteness Interrupted Marcus Bell presents a revealing portrait of white teachers in majority-black schools in which he examines the limitations of understandings of how white racial identity is formed. Through in-depth interviews with dozens of white teachers from a racially segregated, urban school district in Upstate New York, Bell outlines how whiteness is constructed based on localized interactions and takes a different form in predominantly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478013702
• ISBN13: 9781478013709
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"