Critical Whiteness in Reconstructing with Purpose and Equity

In this last section of the Handbook of Critical Whiteness, eight chapters provide pragmatic possibilities to reconstructing with purpose and equity. Concepts explored across these writings promote doing the ally work, meaningfully including First Nations perspectives, practices, views and values, being relationally driven, listening and learning from lived experience and allowing such narratives to assist in the decision-making process, understanding the role cultural diversity and its differences play in personal and professional contexts, prompting an Indigenist approach where White people are guided by Indigenous peoples, and critically engaging with the history of racism and racial oppression to reshape national narratives. Shared goals occur when Whiteness is understood and utilized as a critical framework for change. All in all, this section brings together a message that everyone is responsible to enabling shared outcomes to reconstruct with purpose and equity.