"Being White in a multicultural society": Critical whiteness pedagogy in a dialogue course

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-32

  Yeung, Jeffrey G ^a   Spanierman, Lisa B ^b   Landrum Brown, Joycelyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

critical Whiteness pedagogy; diversity education; higher education; intergroup dialogue courses; White racial attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875401797     PISSN: 19388926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031632     Document Type: Article

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