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2018
Volume 74, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0010-096X
  • E-ISSN: 1939-9006

Abstract

This essay defines “benevolent gaslighting”: a technology of whiteness in which racisms are repurposed as benevolent misunderstandings. In reading disciplinary trends and cultural examples, we show how it (re)centers whiteness and prompts BIPOC to question their histories, memories, and realities by situating racial trauma as “progressive” teaching moments.

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