This book presents a collection of vivid, theoretically informed descriptions of flashpoints--educational moments when the implicit sociocultural knowledge carried in the body becomes a salient feature of experience.

This handbook is a timely response to the persistent silences and omissions about race and racial injustice in and through the arts in education. Such gaps continue even as patterned instances of racial violence and exploitation play out in the media and society. This book thus mobilizes the conceptual tools of critical race theory to examine how whiteness and white supremacy manifest, and are legitimated, through discourses, visual representations, and practices of the arts in education. This work explores wide-ranging questions about the arts as white property while maintaining a focus on...