ABSTRACT
I teach courses in racialization and antiracist feminisms in a women’s studies department in a predominantly White and proudly British colonial city and university. In this outpost of Empire, whiteness—understood as a historically emergent cultural formation that has become naturalized as ordinary and normal—must be explicitly and mindfully named and outed from the shadows. In an environment of overwhelming White hegemony, teaching about racism and racialization cannot proceed unless whiteness is outed. The irony of whiteness is that it is everywhere and nowhere, present and absent, inescapable but denied. 1 Teaching antiracist feminisms in such a context requires a conscious critical pedagogy of whiteness. 2
