College English Nov 2004

Redneck and Hillbilly Discourse in the Writing Classroom: Classifying Critical Pedagogies of Whiteness

Jennifer Beech

Abstract

Challenging views of working-class white students that either displace all white racism onto them or, at best, see them as having exchanged class consciousness for race privilege, the author argues for a critical race pedagogy that includes a more complex image of poor and working-class whites. She argues for both deconstructive pedagogies that can expose the role of language in maintaining racist and classist structures and reconstructive pedagogies that can provide students with the rhetorical tools for employing language transformatively.

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College English
Published
2004-11-01
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10.58680/ce20044066
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