Citation

Glick S. Int. J. Crit. Pedagog. 2020; 11(2): 105-.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy, University of North Carolina Greensboro)

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Abstract

This paper positions public mass gun violence (PMGV) as an intergenerational consequence of the violence of colonization, coloniality, and slavery in the United States. I map how the shooter's white privilege, alongside his white/male fragility, combined with a national consciousness built on an ethos of colonization and coloniality, leads him to believe he has unearned "rights" to the social riches of the center.

I proffer that most of us who benefit from capitalist, neo-liberal, patriarchal state and social institutions are complicit in co-creating the conditions that produce PMGV's gunboys and gunmen because in order to benefit from these institutions, we perpetuate a system of insiders and outsiders. As illustrated, some possibilities for allaying violence are grounded in practicing critical self-reflection and capacities for discomfort.

Keywords: Colonization, public mass gun violence, white fragility, capitalism, education

Language: en