Thread by @Vijay_Ramjattan, In this thread, I'll live tweet some noteworthy points from"Worth the Risk: [...]

Vijay Ramjattan

Vijay_Ramjattan

In this thread, I'll live tweet some noteworthy points from

"Worth the Risk: Decoding and Decentering Whiteness in English Language Teaching."

An @iatefl talk by @JPBGerald!

. @JPBGerald: There's a growing literature on language teaching and race, but language teaching and whiteness is severely underexplored.

. @JPBGerald: racism = racial discrimination + social oppression.

. @JPBGerald reminds us that anti-Blackness is global.

. @JPBGerald: whiteness was created to be supreme.

. @JPBGerald argues that in English language teaching, we are promising students the chance to get closer to whiteness.

According to @JPBGerald, there are 3 types of white resistance when you talk about ELT as a site of white supremacy, which is sustained by capitalism:

1) White fragility
2) White saviorism
3) Altruistic shield

. @JPBGerald cites yours truly:

"In ELT, race and language are also components in the aesthetic labour of teachers: to look good is to be white, while to sound right entails speaking an inner circle variety of English"--from "Lacking the right aesthetic."

. @JPBGerald on how to decenter whiteness in ELT:

- journals: more scholarly spaces for language, race, & whiteness
- conference: no more all white & male panels
- curricula: new language teachers must study race

. @JPBGerald: "White teachers need to interrogate their whiteness."

. @JPBGerald has started The Ezel Project in his own attempt to translate his scholarship into real change to help decenter whiteness:

Find more info here: https://jpbgerald.com/the-ezel-project/

The Ezel Project

The Story On February 18th of 2020, my son Ezel was born. There’s no telling what his skin tone may end up being, but although he has mixed ethnic heritage, he will definitely be seen, and tr…

https://jpbgerald.com/the-ezel-project/

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