ABSTRACT
Together race, whiteness, and gender create a complex of relationships with multiple contradictions that benefit from critical analysis. This chapter is an interrogation of a specific relationship between subgroups within the matrix of race and gender. In this chapter, we examine a particular interaction between White women and children of color of any gender. This relationship needs to be understood to explain the concrete and historical dynamics between these groups. Undoubtedly, we are discussing children of color and adult White women in this analysis, but it remains significant that children of color are facsimiles of adults of color, thus rendering children of color part of the histories with White women. Ungendered analyses of whiteness and White-absent analyses of gender during the educational interaction will be limited in their scope and effectiveness in shedding light on the development of both children of color and White women teachers. This chapter is an attempt to address this limitation.
