Steven T Bickmore

Repositioning the Hook

The framing of this volume has centered on the notion of unhooking from Whiteness as a mechanism to dismantle racism. For many scholars of color, being hooked by Whiteness has represented not only a well-researched problematic of race (Fasching-Varner, 2009), but being hooked by Whiteness has assigned a particular property value to Whiteness and Blackness determined by the White majority (Harris, 1995; Ladson-Billings & Tate, 1995; Dixson & Rousseau, 2006; Fasching-Varner, 2009).