Abstract

Singing and dancing for diversity examines a series of professional development workshops ostensibly centred on racial equity designed for secondary school teachers. Using the concept of neoliberal multiculturalism to critique the implementation of the workshops, this article illustrates how superficial multicultural curriculum distorts anti-racism and reproduces whiteness. The analysis focuses on the social and affective dimensions of racialization that emerge and converge during the workshops to instantiate white epistemological ignorance of race. Epistemological ignorance is established through the construction and sequencing of a watered-down curricular approach to multiculturalism in combination with a diversity concert that functions to persuade white teachers to embrace a non-critical definition of racial equity.

摘要

为多样性而唱歌和跳舞考察了一系列专业发展讲习班，这些讲习班表面上是为中学教师设计的以种族平等为中心的。本文使用新自由主义多元文化主义的概念来批判研讨会的实施，说明了多元文化表面课程如何扭曲反种族主义并重现白人。分析的重点是种族化的社会和情感维度，这些维度在研讨会上出现和融合，以实例化白人对认识论的无知。认识论上的无知是通过对多元文化主义的淡化课程方法的构建和排序，以及旨在说服白人教师接受对种族平等的非批判性定义的多样性音乐会而建立的。