WHITE SQUALL - RESISTANCE AND THE PEDAGOGY OF WHITENESS

'Whiteness' is no longer an invisible or marginal racial category. Wit hin the last decade, 'whiteness' has become increasingly understood as an ideological, racial and political marker in both the rhetoric of r ight-wing conservatives and in the 'new' critical scholarship on 'whit eness'. This article analyses both of these discourses while focusing on the strengths and limitations of the 'new' critical scholarship on 'whiteness'. Finally, it raises the pedagogical and political issue of what it means to rearticulate 'whiteness' in oppositional terms in or der to enable white students to have a stake in anti-racist and democr atic struggles being waged by other groups.