The Power of a Comfortable White Body: Race and Habitual Emotion

This article explores the role of white comfort in sustaining white hegemony in institutional culture and classroom dynamics. The presumption of comfort and security in established social norms enacts an embodied commitment to white supremacy that operates concurrently with conscious, articulated de...

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Main Author: Hauge, Daniel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [2019]
In: Religious education
Year: 2019, Volume: 114, Issue: 3, Pages: 227-238
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Weißsein / Normativity / Custom / Power / Racism / Religious pedagogy
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
FA Theology
ZB Sociology
ZF Education
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Summary:This article explores the role of white comfort in sustaining white hegemony in institutional culture and classroom dynamics. The presumption of comfort and security in established social norms enacts an embodied commitment to white supremacy that operates concurrently with conscious, articulated desires to pursue equity, as it delimits how white people imagine what authentically equitable institutions might look and feel like. The article draws on theological uses of phenomenology and developmental psychology to describe how the white self develops within a hegemonic social milieu and how an embodied sense of agency and comfort within unjust social structures facilitates white normativity.
ISSN:1547-3201
Contains:Enthalten in: Religious education
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/00344087.2019.1603953