Through an analysis of whiteness, capitalism, and teacher education, A Pedagogy of Anticapitalist Antiracism sheds light on the current conditions of public education in the United States. We have created an environment wherein market-based logics of efficiency, lowering costs, and increasing returns have worked to disadvantage those populations most in need of educational opportunities that work to combat poverty. This book traces the history of whiteness in the United States with an explicit emphasis on the ways in which the economic system of capitalism functions to maintain...

This book examines the complexities, losses, and confusion of white racial identities across educational contexts of families and schools, thinking specifically about what this means for educators. It argues that antiracism requires building relationships and story-sharing spaces as a way of living out antiracist commitments.