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Capitalism is a global racialized structure. Although many of the exploited working class are white peoples, people of color, especially women of color, have generally borne the brunt of the human suffering inflicted by capitalism. There is no doubt that colonialism and U.S. slavery were economic systems, but they were also brutal attacks on non-Western peoples.

"We are heading into an era where unbridled greed, racism, sexism, and other forms of hate are, once again, unabashedly proclaimed to the world without remorse. This turn from the once negative association with racism and attempts to avoid being labeled racist has became increasingly evident in the U.S. since 2014, when, astoundingly, a string of White police killings of unarmed Black men went unpunished or unprosecuted (Monzó & McLaren, 2014). In some of these cases the police officers evidenced a complete lack of compassion for the men in their final seconds of life. National coverage of these events made clear to would be haters and predators that racism was still very prevalent and deep rooted in U.S. society. The White supremacist and misogynist venom that U.S. republican hopeful, Donald Trump, is selling in his 2016 presidential campaign has not been seen since the presidency of Ronald Reagan labeled millions of America's unemployed as potential welfare cheats and created the idea that welfare fraud was a nationwide epidemic. The welfare queen—a lazy Black and Brown female living off honest (White) taxpayers' money—was seeded in the soil of America's structural unconscious (Litchman, 1982)."

"Women from across Latin America are migrating north at great peril to their lives – their intended destination is, as expected, the US – that giant powerhouse that in spite of its well documented historical and continued imperialist violence and exploitation against Latin America is still able to create the ideological haze that encourages hope for that illusive "American dream." Pushed to the brink of desperation resulting from unimaginable poverty, privation, and fear, these women muster the courage that only women of color know that they have (it is imbued in their flesh and in their hearts as a result of their histories of oppression) and begin a journey that forever changes their lives."

This article conceptualizes acculturation from a sociocultural theoretical framework. Drawing on data from a 2-year ethnographic study of immigrant families, specifically their beliefs and practices related to discipline, the authors show that acculturation is a complex, dynamic, and interactive process that cannot be easily measured through typical acculturation scales. Indeed, this study shows that families actively choose and negotiate the U.S. practices they adopt and that children are active agents in this process.

In this response to "The Political Nuances of Narratives and an Urban Educator's Response," the authors applaud Pearman's critical approach to deconstructing and challenging narratives of heroic figures who single-handedly change the world and agree with him that these narratives restrict the sense of agency that may propel citizens to become actively involved in social change efforts. We argue that it is important to question why these narratives exist and to understand them in light of the hegemonic capitalist structure that exploits the masses in service to the capitalist class. Although we agree with Pearman that democracy is best served by the participation of every individual in society, we question that common sense coupling of democracy and capitalism and argue that this coupling is integral to the success of the ruling class to maintain the status quo. We find his work of critical importance such that teachers may create classroom contexts that enable students not only to desire to take part in civic responsibilities but also to feel capable of making important contributions that shape society, including challenging the relations of domination across antagonisms: poverty, racism, sexism, heterosexism, et cetera.

This article argues that the gun industry, as part of the broader military industrial complex, serves a specific function of both producing and securing capital interests, U.S. imperialism, and racism and that these work together to support the capital accumulation of the transnational capitalist class. The U.S.–Mexican border and the War on Drugs are discussed as a case in point in which Mexican communities are made expendable in the service of capital. A revolutionary critical pedagogy is advanced to support the mass mobilization of a people worldwide who are fed up with having our labor and our dignity extorted and who are ready to imagine and create a socialist alternative.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword: Unleashed-Whiteness as Predatory Culture -- Introduction: Oxymoronic Whiteness-from the White House to Ferguson -- Part One. Hauntings in Popular Culture -- Reflection -- "Postracial" -- 1. Not Everybody's Protest Novel: White Fictions of Antiracism from Stowe to Stockett -- 2. The Help as Noncomplicit Identification and Nostalgic Revision -- 3. Must(n't) See TV: Hidden Whiteness in Representations of Women of Color -- 4. Color-Blind Rhetoric in Obama's 2008 "Race Speech": The Appeal to Whiteness and the Disciplining of Racial Rhetorical Studies -- Part Two. Hauntings in Social Media -- Reflection -- Before #BlackLivesMatter -- 5. Racialized Slacktivism: Social Media Performances of White Antiracism -- 6. The Ghost's in the Machine: eHarmony and the Reification of Whiteness and Heteronormativity -- 7. Facebook and Absent-Present Rhetorics of Whiteness -- Part Three. Hauntings in Education -- Reflections -- A Dwindling Focus on Whiteness -- Administering Whiteness Studies -- 8. Washing Education White: Arizona's HB 2281 and the Curricular Investment in Whiteness -- 9. How Whiteness Haunts the Textbook Industry: The Reception of Nonwhites in Composition Textbooks -- 10. The Triumph of Whiteness: Dual Credit Courses and Hierarchical Racism in Texas -- Part Four. Hauntings in Pedagogies -- Reflection -- Black, White, and Colors in Between-Whiteness Haunting Feminist Studies -- 11. On the Cover of the Rolling Stone: Deconstructing Monsters and Terrorism in an Era of Postracial Whiteness -- 12. The Pedagogical Role of a White Instructor's Racial Awareness Narrative -- 13. Practicing Mindfulness: A Pedagogical Tool for Spotlighting Whiteness -- Part Five. Problems Haunting Theories of Whiteness -- Reflections -- Calling a White a White -- Calling Whiteness Studies