Working through Whiteness: Examining White Racial Identity and Profession with Pre-Service Teachers

Fasching-Varner remains steadfast with these hopes thorough analysis of interviews and narratives of White pre-service teachers and how they may "engage in racist thinking" He explores how pre-service teachers continually perpetuate a White racial identity, which inhibits understanding of self and self in relation to others, ultimately affecting our nation's children. [...]he found that "liberal non-judgmental" discourse was contrarily coupled with deficit model language. Because the narratives were "free of judgment", students were allowed space to avoid and dance around topics of race and racism, contrarily, reinforcing racism.