Whiteness is not innate it is learned. The systems of white domination that prevail across the world are not pregiven or natural. Rather, they are forged and sustained in social and political life.

Learning Whiteness examines the material conditions, knowledge politics and complex feelings that create and relay systems of racial domination. Focusing on Australia, the authors demonstrate how whiteness is fundamentally an educational project taught within education institutions and through public discourse in active service of the settler colonial state.

To see whiteness as learned is to recognise that it can be confronted. This book invites readers to reckon with past and present politics of education in order to imagine a future thoroughly divested from racism.

Acknowledgements PART I WHITENESS: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURES 1. Educating the Settler Colony 2. Whiteness and the Pedagogies of the State PART II LEARNING WHITENESS 3. Materialities 4. Knowledges 5. Feelings PART III OPENINGS 6. Educational Reckonings Notes Bibliography Index