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/