White-Bashing? Teaching “Hot-Button” Issues via Indirection

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BY JACK C. STRATON
Revised 2009 from the version that appeared in Democracy & Education, Fall 2000, pp. 69-72.
The biggest barriers to learning about racism, sexism, and the other oppressions, are the non-rational aversive reactions most of us have to the material and to the learning process.
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