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A 6 page essay that summaries and discusses orientation that Alice McIntyre (1997) explores in “White Talk,” a chapter from her text Making Meaning of Whiteness. This discussion of racism focuses on McIntyre’s study of a group of young white student teachers, offering summation and the writer’s reaction to the issues presented. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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that students of different ethnic and racial group "pour into questions of racial identity" (Dalton, 2002, p. 17). Furthermore, white educators, in general, do not realize that "White skin
privilege is a birthright, a set of advantages one receives simply by being born with features that society values especially highly" (Dalton, 2002, p. 18). It is this orientation that
McIntyre (1997) explores in "White Talk," a chapter from her text Making Meaning of Whiteness. The following discussion of racism focuses on McIntyres study of a group of young white
student teachers, offering summation and the writers reaction to the issues presented. McIntyre begins her thoughts in "White Talk" by describing the interaction between white female teachers who have
been brought together to discuss "whiteness," i.e. their own ethnicity. However, rather than address the topic at hand in a straightforward manner, McIntyre describes how the women studiously avoid such
a confrontation by employing various tactics, such as through "Interruptions, silences, switching topics, tacitly accepting racist assumptions, talking over one another, joining in collective laughter...(and) hiding under the canopy of
camaraderie" (McIntyre, 1997, p. 47). This sort of circumlocution, McIntyre refers to as "white talk," by which she means also means the uninhibited discourse between white people in which they
rationalize their own behavior. It is talk that serves to "insulate white people from examining their/our individual and collective role(s) in the perpetuation of racism" (McIntyre, 1997, p. 45).
Dalton makes a similar observation when he writes that "Most White people...tend not to think of themselves in racial terms. They know they are White...but mostly that translates into being
not Black, not Asian American" etc. (Dalton, 2002, p. 15). This certainly appears to be the case in the conversations related by McIntyre as the young student educators attempt to
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