White activism and social justice in educational leadership: The work of Jean-Charles Houzeau Article

Edwards, KT. (2013). White activism and social justice in educational leadership: The work of Jean-Charles Houzeau . 16(3), 263-278. 10.1080/13603124.2012.748217

cited authors

  • Edwards, KT

authors

abstract

  • Through a close reading of Jean-Charles Houzeaus My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune: A Memoir of the Civil War Era, I began the process of attempting to adjudicate between an abolitionist-a type of individual who has been made possible in our collective imagery through our historical education-and an active anti-racist educational leader-someone who is more of a recent twentieth-twenty-first century figure in our collective consciousness. Next, I question the absence of active white anti-racists throughout history curriculum and our dependence on the almost docile and paternalistic character of abolitionists as the singular historical example of white allies or radicals. Finally, I consider the implications for not providing a spectrum of white resistance in curriculum for educational leaders, students and the work of social justice in schools wholly. © 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

publication date

  • September 1, 2013

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start page

  • 263

end page

  • 278

volume

  • 16

issue

  • 3