Whiteness at Work

Dr. Claire Stewart-Hall

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Whiteness at Work

A show about the concept of whiteness and how it works. Listen in to notice, reimagine and question the role of whiteness. You will hear collective voices to share in the anti-racism quest to expose and dismantle the dominance of whiteness in our families, institutions and everyday lives.

APR 4

Whiteness at Work with Dr. Penny Rabiger

In this episode, we welcome Dr. Penny Rabiger, researcher, facilitator, connector and anti-racist community resource who is the lead Coach on the Anti-Racist Schools Award at The Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality Penny is an educationalist who studies structural racism in school contexts. We discuss jewishness, being racialised into whiteness as white people, dreams, school contexts and the formations of whiteness in society. References Alexander, C. (2009) Beyond Black, in Back, L. & Solomos, J. (Eds.). (2009). Theoriesof Race and Racism: A Reader (2nd ed.), pp 209 - 225. Abingdon: Routledge.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003060802 Andrews, K. (2023) The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World. London: Allen Lane. https://www.class13.org/ Coard, B. (1971). "Making Black Children Subnormal in Britain." Equity and Excellence in Education, 9(5), 49-52 Cushing, I., & Snell, J. (2023). The (white) ears of Ofsted: A raciolinguistic perspective on the listening practices of the schools inspectorate. Language in society, 52(3), 363-386. Grant, V. (2025) https://www.integritycoaching.co.uk/blog/building-a-compassionate-school-system/isolation-stress-tears-truth-school-leader/ Ignatiev, N., & Garvey, J. (eds.) (1996) Race Traitor. New York: Routledge. Okun, T. White Supremacy Culture. Found Online Lentin, A. (2025) The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy is out in May 2025 with Pluto Press. Salisbury, J. (2022). "How, still, is the Black Caribbean child made educationally subnormal in the English school system?" Consider this talk on 22 April 2025: https://events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:g1z0-m8pxip9l-lbq2pr Penny's website Equitable Coaching's Monthly White accountability space booking link

58 min
MAR 28

Whiteness at Work with Bernice Hewson

In this episode Dr. Claire Stewart-Hall talks with Bernice Hewson, who is a coach, trainer and racial equity scholar. Bernice is the founder of Raising Racial Consciousness and writes and delivers programmes for practitioners and coaches, leaders and allies to deepen practice and challenge whiteness. We talk about whiteness in the institution, in coaching and in therapeutic spaces and the importance of inner race work for people practising in these fields. References Roche, C & Passmore, J. (2021) Racial Justice, Equityand Belonging in Coaching Henley Business School: UK Find Bernice's Linked In profile here

46 min
FEB 13

Whiteness at Work with Stephen Francis

If you would like to hear more about the work of social justice researcher, Stephen Francis, here are some links to his work and profile: Article LinkedIn References Stephen Francis referred to and some other reading that might help: Farrell, F. (2021). White Man face, order words and deviance detectors: a Deleuzoguattarian analysis of fundamental British values. Prism: Casting New Light on Learning, Theory and Practice., 1-24. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.24377/prism.ljmu.0302202 Hall, S. (2017).Familiar stranger: A life between two islands. Duke University Press. hooks, b. (1997) Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination. DisplacingWhiteness. Duke University Press. DOI: 10.1215/978082270-006 Hylton, K., & Hylton-Fraser, K. (2022). An evaluation of the “every child can learn, every child must learn” mantra’s alignment with educational policies inJamaica.Equity in Education & Society,27526461211066497 Jackson, M., Von Dohlen, H., & Black-Chen, M. (2024). Preparing school leaders for social justice: An analysis of educational leadership preparation programs in Jamaica.Equity in Education & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/27526461241235937 Miller, K. (2013). A Smaller Sound, A Lesser Fury: A Eulogy for Dub Poetry. InWriting Down the Vision: Essays & Prophecies (pp. 79–90). Peepal Tree. Miller, K. (2021). Mr. Brown, Mrs White & Ms Black. InThings I Have Withheld,(pp. 18–42). Canongate Books Ltd. Sriprakash, A, Rudolph, S. and Gerrard, J. , (2022).Learning Whiteness: Education and the Settler Colonial State, London: Pluto Press, 2022.

53 min
FEB 3

Why Talk About Whiteness? The Why

In this episode Dr. Claire Stewart-Hall raises questions about why talking about whiteness is critical to its abolition and how it has affected her life and beliefs. She covers the why about whiteness - why study it? and what is the purpose? Equitable Coaching can be contacted for services here You can book into our monthly a white accountability space here. References Bonilla-Silva, E., Goar, C., & Embrick, D. G. (2006). When Whites Flock Together: The Social Psychology of White Habitus. Critical Sociology, 32(2-3), 229-253. Grant, V. (2025) Integrity Coaching, Race, Identity and School Leadership Programme, https://www.integritycoaching.co.uk/race-work/identity-race-programme/ Helms, J. E. (2014). Toward a model of White racial identity development. In College student development and academic life (pp. 207-224). Routledge. Ignatiev, N. (2012). How the Irish became white. Routledge. Michael, A. (2015). Raising race questions: Whiteness and inquiry in education. Teachers College Press.

19 min
JAN 7

Racial Literacy: Colour Evasion

In this episode we talk about colour evasion as a foundational part of how whiteness functions in organisations, referencing the work of: Leonardo, Z. (2015) Contracting race: writing, racism, and education, Critical Studies in Education, 56:1, 86-98, DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2015.981197 Bonilla-Silva, E. (2018). Racism without racists: Color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in the United States (5th ed.). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Bonilla-Silva, E., & Embrick, D. (2006a). Racism without racists: ‘Killing me softly’ with color blindness. In C. Rossotto, R. L. Allen, & M. Pruyn (Eds.), Reinventing Critical Pedagogy (pp. 21–34). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

18 min
2024-12-03

Race and Education Policy

This episode offers a verbal timeline about policy relating to race in schools in England and gives further food for thought for educators and policy makers about the relationships between education policy and institutional racism. I refer to the following documents: The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities: The Report (2021) Esteves, O. (2018) The Desegregation of English Schools: bussing, race and urban space 1960s-1980s, Manchester University Press; Manchester, UK. Gillborn, D. (2008). Racism and education: Coincidence or conspiracy? London: Routledge. Mirza, H. S. (2024) [Found Online] Understanding Race Equality in British Schools: a 75 year timeline Mirza, H. S. (2022). A short history of ‘Race’ in British schools: A 75-year timeline. On Education. Journal for Research and Debate, 5(13). https://doi.org/10.17899/on_ed.2022.13.9 NEU (2021) Framework for creating an anti-racist approach [Available Online]

34 min
2024-12-03

Race and Language

Are we still using that problematic term? This episode is part of the Racial Literacy series to develop skills to talk about race. In this episode, I discuss language and race and the 'right terms' to use to describe people.

9 min
2024-11-29

Introduction to the podcast

So what is this podcast all about?

1 min
2024-11-27

The Invention of 'Race'

This short episode helps listeners to understand where the concept of 'race' came from historically and how it became embedded in the logics of colonialism still evident today.

11 min

9 Episodes

A show about the concept of whiteness and how it works. Listen in to notice, reimagine and question the role of whiteness. You will hear collective voices to share in the anti-racism quest to expose and dismantle the dominance of whiteness in our families, institutions and everyday lives.

Creator

Dr. Claire Stewart-Hall
Years Active

2024 - 2025
Episodes

9
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Clean
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© Dr. Claire Stewart-Hall
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Whiteness at Work