ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses whiteness as a global ideology that determines elite status, access to symbolic and material resources, and ultimately shapes the structure and dynamics of schooling, including curriculum policies. Despite the global reach of whiteness, the history and role of racism in its dominance can often be under-theorized. Revisiting his 2002 article, “The souls of white folk: Critical pedagogy, whiteness studies, and globalization discourse” that argued that “critical pedagogy benefits from an intersectional understanding of whiteness studies and globalization discourse” (p. 29), through this conversation between Zeus Leonardo, Monisha Bajaj, and Janelle Scott, the chapter offers analyses about the shifting terrain of white supremacy as it manifests and circulates globally. Leonardo calls for both global studies of whiteness as well as comparative whiteness studies across contexts that attend to history, geography, power asymmetries, and ideology.
