DREAM Collective Gives Answers to “Is Whiteness a Problem?”
The DREAM (Dismantling Racism through Education, Advocacy and Mobilization) Collective at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will host the webinar, “Why Whiteness is a Problem,” featuring Zak Foste, PhD, assistant professor of Higher Education at the University of Kansas, and Lauren Irwin, PhD student in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program at the University of Iowa.
The conference will be at 2 p.m. Thursday. Sept.10. The registration link is available here and visit DREAM’sYouTube livestream link.
The webinar will tackle such questions as:
- “What is white complicity?
- “Isn’t Black Lives Matter reverse racism?
- What’s the problem with saying, “All Lives Matter?”
Foste’s research critically explores whiteness in higher education, and his work examines how whiteness functions to underwrite racially hostile and unwelcoming campus climates for students of color. It also investigates the ways in which white college students understand their relationship to race and whiteness.
Foste’s most recent work scrutinized how whiteness structures students’ experiences in campus residence halls.
Irwin’s research critically examines how processes of racialized legitimation shape co-curricular contexts in higher education, like leadership education. Irwin also has professional student affairs experience in leadership development, residence life and InterGroup Dialogues.
A question-and-answer session will follow.
A team of faculty activists from the SIUE School of Education, Health and Human Behavior launched the DREAM Collective in June. The group is building on decades of scholarship to conduct the important work of Dismantling Racism through Education, Advocacy, and Mobilization. Its team of faculty activists seek to create effective programming and foster cultural competency in responsive educators and community members. Members include education faculty Jennifer Hernandez, Ph.D.; Jessica Krim, EdD; J.T. Snipes, Ph.D.; Nate Williams, Ph.D.; and SEHHB Dean Robin Hughes, PhD.
For more information, contact the DREAM Collective at TheDREAMCollective@siue.edu and follow the DREAM Collective on Facebook @dreamcollective20, Twitter @DREAMcollect20 and Instagram @DREAMcollective20.
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Zak Foste, PhD, assistant professor of Higher Education at the University of Kansas
