Article
Teaching About White Nationalism: Critical Pedagogy About Patriotism, Law and the State
Whiteness and Education
(2023)
Abstract
White nationalism has persisted in the United States, and in other settler-colonial locales, as a powerful expression of racial authority and capacity for inflicting harm. This paper stems from and reflects on the authors’ experiences of developing and delivering pedagogy about white nationalism and right-wing populism. As such, it is intended to support and catalyse curriculum development and dialogue between educators across disciplines who possess a commitment to anti-racist teaching about the political right. The analysis centred in this discussion particularly engages the relationship between white nationalist movements, patriotic mobilisation, and state power. In this regard, it is also intended to speak to critical race scholars with an interest in the role of law in sustaining and reconstituting white supremacist public engagement and discourse.
Keywords
- white nationalism,
- critical race theory,
- Nazism,
- right-wing populism
Disciplines
Publication Date
June 14, 2023
DOI
10.1080/23793406.2023.2222542
Citation Information
Beth Ribet and Leslie Bunnage. "Teaching About White Nationalism: Critical Pedagogy About Patriotism, Law and the State" Whiteness and Education (2023) ISSN: 2379-3414 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/leslie-bunnage/7/