ABSTRACT
A black man, Keith Lamont Scott, was murdered by a police officer in Charlotte in September 2016 just miles away from and months before the workshop described in this chapter took place. His death sparked a series of widely televised protests—another in a devastatingly long list of police shootings. The police officer who shot Scott was acquitted of any wrongdoing one month later. The murder of people of color at the hands of people and institutions who maintain white supremacy in the United States continues as we prepare this book years later. Discussions of race and power continue in the United States, growing increasingly more fraught. And, of course, children bear witness to the violence and silences of white supremacy. The fourth graders we worked with in Charlotte certainly knew of the murder of Keith Lamont Scott—he was present as we led our second experiment with transformative critical whiteness pedagogy in an elementary context.
