Comforting Discomfort as Complicity: White Fragility and the Pursuit of Invulnerability

By B. Applebaum. Hypatia, 2017

118 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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In Applied Psychology

1. Michalinos Zembylas

In Education

1. Michalinos Zembylas
2. Icy Lee
3. Rui (Eric) Yuan
4. R. Saunders
5. Hongbiao Yin
6. N. Lesko
7. P. Schutz
8. Michael R. Harwell

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Michalinos Zembylas
2. Mei-Lin Chang
3. Geert Kelchtermans
4. Michael R. Harwell

Citations in the corpus

• Affect, race, and white discomfort in schooling: decolonial strategies for ‘pedagogies of discomfort’ (2018, background): “A similar argument, from a slightly different angle, has been recently made by Applebaum (2017) who points out that the pedagogical practice of ‘comforting discomfort in the social justice classroom’ (862) is dangerous.”