Cheryl E Matias
Biographic Data
| ID | 771785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cheryl E Matias |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cheryl E |
| FAMILY NAME | Matias |
| SIGNATURE | MATIAS C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0803-9586 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 249 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Unpacking Emotional Configurations of Whiteness in Science Teacher Education: A Response to McCausland
In this response to Jonathan McCausland's “Emotional Configurations of White Shame and White Ambivalence for White Interns in a Secondary Science Teaching Program,” as part of the special issue on Centering Affect and Emotion Toward Justice and Dignity in Science Education, we reflect on the complexities of Whiteness, emotion, and antiracist teaching in science education. Building on McCausland's analysis, we examine how configurations such as wh…
Teaching with a Racialized Heart: Reframing Emotion as Theory and Praxis in Trauma-Informed Education
“Kuwentos as Resistance”: Revealing White Emotionalities in the Social Justice Leadership of Asian American Educators
Asian American school leaders in K-20 schools and universities remain underrepresented in the field. As such, it is imperative that we study the experience of Asian American women (AAW) leaders to understand the racialized experiences of this specific group, particularly when they enact innovative leadership. We, the authors, argue that behind these racialized experiences are white emotionalities that are imposed upon AAW in uniquely raced and ge…
Silenced no more: Women of color confronting racial gaslighting in academia
The Emotional Burden of Studying White Emotionalities: My Kuwento , My Testimony
Part of me -search, per Gardner's article, is acknowledging oneself in research. Although novel, researchers are taught to silence their passions, hoping that leads to objectivity. However, is objectivity attainable? As qualitative inquiry is NOT JUST A QUALITATIVE STUDY but instead ethnically necessary to advance social justice and human rights. Employing kuwentos as method, I begin with me in my own research: how I researched White emotionaliti…
Beyond being balikbayan: An examination of imposed boxes toward becoming Pin@y educators of decolonial and racially just education
The Tagalog word, balikbayan, means to return home. Oftentimes, balikbayan refers to boxes sent or brought to family in the Philippines by Filipina/x/o Americans (FA). The balikbayan, then, also refers to the person returning, which is an embodiment of relational accountability, social responsibility, and communal reciprocity. Returning, however, cannot be removed from the legacy of colonialism and how Filipino-Americanism has created a fragmente…
Honoring Our Voices and Experiences: Chinese American College Students’ Self-Meaning-Making Through the Lens of Critical Whiteness Studies
Chinese American College Students’ Self-Meaning Making Through the Lens of Critical Whiteness Studies
From critical whiteness studies to a critical study of whiteness: Restoring criticality in critical whiteness studies
This theoretical article critically reflects on critical whiteness studies (CWS), particularly addressing the critique that CWS does not have racial theory and therefore cannot be considered a theoretical framework in which to analyse race. Reflecting on existing literature that interrogates whiteness in teacher education; we contend that to centre racial justice in education research a critical study of whiteness must be employed, drawing from t…
Toward Critically Analyzing Whiteness in Immigrant Health
Assimilation theories dominate immigration scholarship to examine differential life chances, opportunities, and health of immigrants across three waves of immigrants in the United States. Assimilation theories are widely used in public health to explain the health status of immigrants despite the embedded White supremacist ideology while ignoring the role of whiteness. This article reviews and critiques assimilation theories to propose a critical…
White racial ignorance and refusing culpability: How the emotionalities of whiteness ignore race in teacher education
This article builds on Charles W. Mills’ foundational concept of white racial ignorance to expand his work by exploring the inner dynamics and practices of teacher education (its rationales, student teaching, practicums, pedagogies, curriculum) and explaining how the emotionalities of whiteness play a significant role in the ways that whiteness persists perniciously in teacher education. In order to hold whiteness accountable and culpable, it is …
Dancing with Charles: A man, scholar, legacy
Scholars like Leonardo (2009 Leonardo, Z. 2009. Race, Whiteness, and Education. New York: Routledge.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) or Yancy (2006) regularly apply, otherwise, dance with Charles Mills’ concepts like the Racial Contract (Mills 1997 Mills, C. W. 1997. The Racial Contract. New York: Cornell University Press. [Google Scholar]), epistemology of ignorance (Mills 2007), and white Marxism and Black Radicalism (Mills 2003 Mills, C. W. 2003…
Interrogating Democracy, Education, and Modern White Supremacy: A (Re)Constitution Toward Racially Just Democratic Teacher Education
Background/Context: Almost 100 years ago, John Dewey advocated for a democratic U.S. educational system, one that echoed the tenets of the U.S. Constitution and achieved an ethical ideal by inviting participation of all students. Yet the U.S. educational system continues to stop short of this goal insofar as students of Color—especially those in urban school districts—disproportionately face obstacles not so encountered by white students. Purpose…
Towards a Black Whiteness studies: A response to the growing field
This reflective essay documents my experiences, critiques, and application of critical whiteness studies in my own research, though, as proven below, they cannot be understood without my forever commitment to strengthen, expand, and re-imagine the field. To be clear, I do not critique for critique's sake, rather, I present my approach for the sake of forever expanding how CWS is operationalized in future research. CWS is a much-needed theory, fra…
On whiteness Studies: Hope and Futurity
Raising Love in A Time of Lovelessness: Kuwentos of Pinayist Motherscholars Resisting Covid-19’s Anti-Asian Racism
This proposal begins with a critical race commentary on how the current day anti-Asian racism is nothing more than a similar playing out of the United States’s handbook on anti-Asian sentiment. Then the paper takes a narrative turn employing Pinay methodologies such as kuwentos. Each kuwento illuminates how Pinay Motherscholars navigate the hate found in a patriarchal and whitesupremacist academy and the white supremacy in their own communities u…
Birthing the Motherscholar and Motherscholarship
Though initially introduced in a 2011 American Educational Research Association conference panel, this introduction explicates where the term motherscholar theoretically derives, how motherscholarship has grown, and how to continue the movement. Also, included is a brief synopsis of each article in the special issues
The Handbook of Critical Theoretical Research Methods in Education
Handbook of Critical Theoretical Research Methods in Education
Educating Hope, Radicalizing Imagination, and Politicizing Possibility in Hard Times
This manuscript introduces a dialogue on educating hope, radicalizing imagination, and politicizing possibility. It provides both conceptual and empirical, challenge traditional ways of engaging in and interpreting research, and affirm the significance of educational inquiry as a form of liberatory or radical democratic practice. It illuminates creative strategies for us to research and write to resist and fight for human dignity and social justi…
Ripping our hearts: Three counterstories on terror, threat, and betrayal in U.S. universities
This article includes three essays to explore how U.S. universities engage in practices that terrorize, threat, and betray women of color in academia. Drawing from personal narratives to illuminate the psychoanalytical argument, this essay bridges together both storytelling, actual events, and deeper racial psychoanalysis and critical emotion studies to better understand how whiteness operates in academia. The essays are also situated in a partic…
A Prologue to Editing
As the official journal of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA), Educational Studies provides scholars, researchers, students, teachers, teacher educators, and administrators interes
Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment: Postdigital Relationships between Science, Philosophy, and Religion
Do you SEE the words coming out of that text: Seeing Whiteness in Digital Text
Though texts are commonly perceived as merely written, this article explores texts in a more complex manner: in digital form. First, the paper posits the importance of "reading" digital texts (e.g., social media, films, memes, etc.) and demonstrates how such texts transmit hegemonic ideas about race and whiteness, which ultimately reifies white supremacy in society. Using a variety of critical theories such as critical studies of whiteness and cr…
Activism or slacktivism? The potential and pitfalls of social media in contemporary student activism
When saying you care is not really caring’: Emotions of disgust, whiteness ideology, and teacher education
Drawing on one of the author’s experiences of teaching white teacher candidates in an urban university, this paper argues for the importance of interrogating the ways that benign emotions (e.g., pity and caring) are sometimes hidden expressions of disgust for the Other. Using critical race theory, whiteness studies, and critical emotion studies, it is shown how whiteness ideology erroneously translates disgust for people of color to false profess…
Tending to the Heart of Communities of Color: Towards Critical Race Teacher Activism
Critical Race Theory and Critical Whiteness Studies assert colorblindness flourishes when most urban teachers who are White feel emotionally uncomfortable to engage in dynamics of race in the classroom. Colorblind ideology distorts urban teaching because it presumes (a) many White teachers are missionaries trained to save and (b) urban schools are pathological deficits that need to be saved. We propose a community of color epistemological approac…
Breakin’ Down Whiteness in Antiracist Teaching: Introducing Critical Whiteness Pedagogy
Blocking CRT: How the Emotionality of Whiteness Blocks CRT in Urban Teacher Education
Although Critical Race Theory (CRT) has been applied to teacher education, it has yet to be meaningfully integrated into the core of urban teacher education programs. The reticence to embrace CRT is largely due to the overwhelming presence of Whiteness, despite Sleeter's (2001) demand for diversification. This theoretically interpretative article employs CRT's methodology of counterstorytelling to interrogate how Whiteness manifests itself in emo…
Critical Race Parenting: Understanding Scholarship/Activism in Parenting Our Children
Parenting is often discussed in the field of education, but frequently in terms of family or community deficiency, rather than strengths (Bonilla Silva, 2006; Few, 2007), particularly when communities of color are being examined. In this conceptual article, we advocate for the use of critical race theory (CRT) in discussions of parenting and utilize counterstorytelling to validate the lived experiences of parents like ourselves, who are critical …
Who you callin' white?! A critical counter-story on colouring white identity
This action research, which utilizes critical race theory's counter-storytelling, analyses a process of debunking White students' epistemology of ignorance in a history course at an urban public high school. After piloting a raced curriculum that deliberately re-centers marginalized counter-stories of students of colour, I document its impacts on White students' understanding of history. Ultimately, such a process problematizes White students' se…
Digital Storytelling as Racial Justice: Digital Hopes for Deconstructing Whiteness in Teacher Education
Teacher education is replete with an overwhelming presence of Whiteness, a presence that if not explicitly interrogated indefinitely recycles hegemonic Whiteness. Needed are pedagogical strategies that expose the hegemonic invisibility of Whiteness. This critical reflection examines the utilization of digital storytelling by teacher educators of color to pedagogically deconstruct Whiteness in a predominately White, urban-focused teacher education…
Towards a Black Whiteness studies: A response to the growing field
This reflective essay documents my experiences, critiques, and application of critical whiteness studies in my own research, though, as proven below, they cannot be understood without my forever commitment to strengthen, expand, and re-imagine the field. To be clear, I do not critique for critique's sake, rather, I present my approach for the sake of forever expanding how CWS is operationalized in future research. CWS is a much-needed theory, fra…
Better the devil you see, than the one you don’t: Bearing witness to emboldened en-whitening epistemology in the Trump era
Critical scholars of race maintain that racism that is not clearly seen every day is the most dangerous kind. Notwithstanding ‘invisible’ racism qua racism without racists—per some race scholars—explorations on mechanisms of Whiteness in the Trump era must be had. One mechanism is perpetuating epistemological racial ignorance. However, that epistemological moment has passed. Instead, US society is returning to an emboldened en/whitening epistemol…
ParentCrit epilog
Activism or slacktivism? The potential and pitfalls of social media in contemporary student activism
Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment: Postdigital Relationships between Science, Philosophy, and Religion
White Skin, Black Friend: A Fanonian application to theorize racial fetish in teacher education
In Black Skin, white masks (1967, Grove Press), Franz Fanon uses a psychoanalytic framework to theorize the inferiority-dependency complex of Black men in response to the colonial racism of white men. Applying his framework in reverse, this theoretical article psychoanalyzes the white psyche and emotionality with respect to the racialization process of whites and their racial attachment to Blackness. Positing that such a process is interconnected…
Tears Worth Telling: Urban Teaching and the Possibilities of Racial Justice
Silencing race dialogue in urban classrooms is painful for students of color. The author of this article, an urban teacher, documents her resistance to colorblind racism by strategically including race in daily classroom practices. She argues that acknowledging emotionality and Whiteness are essential steps that teachers must take to reinvest in prolonged racially-just projects
White racial ignorance and refusing culpability: How the emotionalities of whiteness ignore race in teacher education
This article builds on Charles W. Mills’ foundational concept of white racial ignorance to expand his work by exploring the inner dynamics and practices of teacher education (its rationales, student teaching, practicums, pedagogies, curriculum) and explaining how the emotionalities of whiteness play a significant role in the ways that whiteness persists perniciously in teacher education. In order to hold whiteness accountable and culpable, it is …
On whiteness Studies: Hope and Futurity
Educating Hope, Radicalizing Imagination, and Politicizing Possibility in Hard Times
This manuscript introduces a dialogue on educating hope, radicalizing imagination, and politicizing possibility. It provides both conceptual and empirical, challenge traditional ways of engaging in and interpreting research, and affirm the significance of educational inquiry as a form of liberatory or radical democratic practice. It illuminates creative strategies for us to research and write to resist and fight for human dignity and social justi…
Ripping our hearts: Three counterstories on terror, threat, and betrayal in U.S. universities
This article includes three essays to explore how U.S. universities engage in practices that terrorize, threat, and betray women of color in academia. Drawing from personal narratives to illuminate the psychoanalytical argument, this essay bridges together both storytelling, actual events, and deeper racial psychoanalysis and critical emotion studies to better understand how whiteness operates in academia. The essays are also situated in a partic…
Exposing the white avatar: Projections, justifications, and the ever-evolving American racism
In the context of the United States, mainstream entertainment genres continue to recycle dominant racial ideologies typified by the perspectives of white men. American minstrelsy, literature, and film are key sites for whiteness to manifest itself in the design and projection of online personae via white avatars. These projections of whiteness also reify the US racial structure, one that subjects the perspectives of people of color to misrepresen…
Raising Love in A Time of Lovelessness: Kuwentos of Pinayist Motherscholars Resisting Covid-19’s Anti-Asian Racism
This proposal begins with a critical race commentary on how the current day anti-Asian racism is nothing more than a similar playing out of the United States’s handbook on anti-Asian sentiment. Then the paper takes a narrative turn employing Pinay methodologies such as kuwentos. Each kuwento illuminates how Pinay Motherscholars navigate the hate found in a patriarchal and whitesupremacist academy and the white supremacy in their own communities u…
Birthing the Motherscholar and Motherscholarship
Though initially introduced in a 2011 American Educational Research Association conference panel, this introduction explicates where the term motherscholar theoretically derives, how motherscholarship has grown, and how to continue the movement. Also, included is a brief synopsis of each article in the special issues
Teaching with a Racialized Heart: Reframing Emotion as Theory and Praxis in Trauma-Informed Education
American Chimera: The Ever-Present Domination of Whiteness, Patriarchy, and Capitalism…A Parable”
In Greek mythology, the Chimera is a fire-breathing monster with three heads: one of a lion, one of a horned goat, and one of a powerful dragon. Of similar construction is the presence of three structures in US society, whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism, which are overwhelmingly represented, valued, and espoused when examining areas of progress, i.e., family income, poverty rates, high school and college graduation rates, and home ownership. …
Whiteness in academia: Counter-stories of betrayal and resistance
Preston’s Whiteness in Academia: Counter-Stories of Betrayal and Resistance follows the parable tradition of Critical Race Theory (CRT) captured by Derrick Bell (1987, 1992), a tradition that provi
Who you callin' white?! A critical counter-story on colouring white identity
This action research, which utilizes critical race theory's counter-storytelling, analyses a process of debunking White students' epistemology of ignorance in a history course at an urban public high school. After piloting a raced curriculum that deliberately re-centers marginalized counter-stories of students of colour, I document its impacts on White students' understanding of history. Ultimately, such a process problematizes White students' se…
Tears Worth Telling: Urban Teaching and the Possibilities of Racial Justice
Silencing race dialogue in urban classrooms is painful for students of color. The author of this article, an urban teacher, documents her resistance to colorblind racism by strategically including race in daily classroom practices. She argues that acknowledging emotionality and Whiteness are essential steps that teachers must take to reinvest in prolonged racially-just projects
“What is Critical Whiteness Doing in OUR Nice Field like Critical Race Theory?” Applying CRT and CWS to Understand the White Imaginations of White Teacher Candidates
Critical Race Theory (CRT) revolutionized how we investigate race in education. Centralizing counter-stories from people of color becomes essential for decentralizing white normative discourse—a process we refer to as realities within the Black imagination. Yet, few studies examine how whites respond to centering the Black imagination, especially since their white imagination goes unrecognized. We propose utilizing Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS…
When saying you care is not really caring’: Emotions of disgust, whiteness ideology, and teacher education
Drawing on one of the author’s experiences of teaching white teacher candidates in an urban university, this paper argues for the importance of interrogating the ways that benign emotions (e.g., pity and caring) are sometimes hidden expressions of disgust for the Other. Using critical race theory, whiteness studies, and critical emotion studies, it is shown how whiteness ideology erroneously translates disgust for people of color to false profess…
Whiteness in academia: Counter-stories of betrayal and resistance
Preston’s Whiteness in Academia: Counter-Stories of Betrayal and Resistance follows the parable tradition of Critical Race Theory (CRT) captured by Derrick Bell (1987, 1992), a tradition that provi
Tending to the Heart of Communities of Color: Towards Critical Race Teacher Activism
Critical Race Theory and Critical Whiteness Studies assert colorblindness flourishes when most urban teachers who are White feel emotionally uncomfortable to engage in dynamics of race in the classroom. Colorblind ideology distorts urban teaching because it presumes (a) many White teachers are missionaries trained to save and (b) urban schools are pathological deficits that need to be saved. We propose a community of color epistemological approac…
White Skin, Black Friend: A Fanonian application to theorize racial fetish in teacher education
In Black Skin, white masks (1967, Grove Press), Franz Fanon uses a psychoanalytic framework to theorize the inferiority-dependency complex of Black men in response to the colonial racism of white men. Applying his framework in reverse, this theoretical article psychoanalyzes the white psyche and emotionality with respect to the racialization process of whites and their racial attachment to Blackness. Positing that such a process is interconnected…
American Chimera: The Ever-Present Domination of Whiteness, Patriarchy, and Capitalism…A Parable”
In Greek mythology, the Chimera is a fire-breathing monster with three heads: one of a lion, one of a horned goat, and one of a powerful dragon. Of similar construction is the presence of three structures in US society, whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism, which are overwhelmingly represented, valued, and espoused when examining areas of progress, i.e., family income, poverty rates, high school and college graduation rates, and home ownership. …
Exposing the white avatar: Projections, justifications, and the ever-evolving American racism
In the context of the United States, mainstream entertainment genres continue to recycle dominant racial ideologies typified by the perspectives of white men. American minstrelsy, literature, and film are key sites for whiteness to manifest itself in the design and projection of online personae via white avatars. These projections of whiteness also reify the US racial structure, one that subjects the perspectives of people of color to misrepresen…
Feeling White: Whiteness, Emotionality, and Education
Breakin’ Down Whiteness in Antiracist Teaching: Introducing Critical Whiteness Pedagogy
Blocking CRT: How the Emotionality of Whiteness Blocks CRT in Urban Teacher Education
Although Critical Race Theory (CRT) has been applied to teacher education, it has yet to be meaningfully integrated into the core of urban teacher education programs. The reticence to embrace CRT is largely due to the overwhelming presence of Whiteness, despite Sleeter's (2001) demand for diversification. This theoretically interpretative article employs CRT's methodology of counterstorytelling to interrogate how Whiteness manifests itself in emo…
Critical Race Parenting: Understanding Scholarship/Activism in Parenting Our Children
Parenting is often discussed in the field of education, but frequently in terms of family or community deficiency, rather than strengths (Bonilla Silva, 2006; Few, 2007), particularly when communities of color are being examined. In this conceptual article, we advocate for the use of critical race theory (CRT) in discussions of parenting and utilize counterstorytelling to validate the lived experiences of parents like ourselves, who are critical …
Digital Storytelling as Racial Justice: Digital Hopes for Deconstructing Whiteness in Teacher Education
Teacher education is replete with an overwhelming presence of Whiteness, a presence that if not explicitly interrogated indefinitely recycles hegemonic Whiteness. Needed are pedagogical strategies that expose the hegemonic invisibility of Whiteness. This critical reflection examines the utilization of digital storytelling by teacher educators of color to pedagogically deconstruct Whiteness in a predominately White, urban-focused teacher education…
Activism or slacktivism? The potential and pitfalls of social media in contemporary student activism
Between the World and Me
Better the devil you see, than the one you don’t: Bearing witness to emboldened en-whitening epistemology in the Trump era
Critical scholars of race maintain that racism that is not clearly seen every day is the most dangerous kind. Notwithstanding ‘invisible’ racism qua racism without racists—per some race scholars—explorations on mechanisms of Whiteness in the Trump era must be had. One mechanism is perpetuating epistemological racial ignorance. However, that epistemological moment has passed. Instead, US society is returning to an emboldened en/whitening epistemol…
ParentCrit epilog
Ripping our hearts: Three counterstories on terror, threat, and betrayal in U.S. universities
This article includes three essays to explore how U.S. universities engage in practices that terrorize, threat, and betray women of color in academia. Drawing from personal narratives to illuminate the psychoanalytical argument, this essay bridges together both storytelling, actual events, and deeper racial psychoanalysis and critical emotion studies to better understand how whiteness operates in academia. The essays are also situated in a partic…
A Prologue to Editing
As the official journal of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA), Educational Studies provides scholars, researchers, students, teachers, teacher educators, and administrators interes
Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment: Postdigital Relationships between Science, Philosophy, and Religion
Do you SEE the words coming out of that text: Seeing Whiteness in Digital Text
Though texts are commonly perceived as merely written, this article explores texts in a more complex manner: in digital form. First, the paper posits the importance of "reading" digital texts (e.g., social media, films, memes, etc.) and demonstrates how such texts transmit hegemonic ideas about race and whiteness, which ultimately reifies white supremacy in society. Using a variety of critical theories such as critical studies of whiteness and cr…
The Handbook of Critical Theoretical Research Methods in Education
Handbook of Critical Theoretical Research Methods in Education
Educating Hope, Radicalizing Imagination, and Politicizing Possibility in Hard Times
This manuscript introduces a dialogue on educating hope, radicalizing imagination, and politicizing possibility. It provides both conceptual and empirical, challenge traditional ways of engaging in and interpreting research, and affirm the significance of educational inquiry as a form of liberatory or radical democratic practice. It illuminates creative strategies for us to research and write to resist and fight for human dignity and social justi…
Sociology (37 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (34 works) · Gender Studies (29 works) · Political science (24 works) · Gender Studies (22 works) · Law (21 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Pedagogy (19 works) · Racism (19 works) · Politics (17 works)