This Special Issue in the journal of Understanding & Dismantling Privilege features studies that utilize Critical Content Analysis (CCS) as a methodological approach to research the topic of race, racial oppression, and racial privilege across a variety of texts. Unlike reflections on texts or creative pieces,

Critical Content Analysis is a form of textual analysis with a critical “stance of locating power in social practices in order to challenge conditions of inequity” (Short, 2017, p. 1).

The editors for "Special Issue: Critical Content Analysis of Race, Racism, & Whitness” are Understanding & Dismantling Privilege Editor Jamie Utt with Co-Editor Kathy Short from the University of Arizona.

This Double Special Issue was envisioned as an international collaborative endeavor between colleagues located at educational institutions in both Canada and the United States. The White Privilege Symposium Canada (WPSC) event, held at Brock University from September 30 – October 1, 2016, an initiative of the Antiracism Task Force set the stage for the inception of this collaboration. The two journals provide a platform for our mutual desire to exchange knowledge across Canadian and US borders specifically regarding strategies and action plans that are being used by individuals and organizations that strive to merge duality between environments (the world of social activists and that of academics). These works provide inroads into a critical understanding about White privilege as articulated through heterogenous writings, reflections, workshops and papers offered at WPSC..." To continue reading this editorial, and to read the other half of this special double issue, visit Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice at

https://brock.scholarsportal.info/journals/brocked/home/issue/view/36

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