Publications
A common saying in the academy is “wait until after tenure to say what you really want to say.” Although I understand the basis of why this phrase is popularly stated to untenured faculty, I disagree with it. Our research is our heart and to deny our hearts is to deny our very reason for coming into the academy in the first place. When I first started publishing I was told to take out all the emotional words out of my manuscript and to use the word “affect” instead of “emotion,” as if a more masculinize term would better legitimize the presumed “femininity” behind the word “emotion.” In advising me towards tenure a senior white male faculty member instructed me to stop “making up” words like “whiteness” or “white supremacy.” To simply do what I was hired to do—to analyze whiteness and promote racial justice in teacher education—was wrought with so much hurdles—not on my behalf. Rather, folks were so emotionally discomforted in learning about race and racism that they continued to emotionally project their racial angst onto me instead of taking a moment to understand why they are feeling so emotionally instable in the first place. Instead of kowtowing to these unhealthy emotional displays I remain true to my research, teaching and service. I wrote my heart. I wrote my Truth. In doing so, I said what I really needed to say despite those refusing to hear because in the end our boldness in writing expands our intellectual imaginations. Is that not the purpose of research? Therefore, writing is my freedom and when it speaks to your heart and Truth it can be for you too.
Journal Articles
2019
Matias, C. E.(2019). Ripping Our Hearts: Three Counterstories on Terror, Threat, and Betrayal in U.S. Universities. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
Click Here
Chow, CJ, Case, GA, &Matias, C. E. “Tools for discussing identity and privilege among medical students, trainees, and faculty” MedEdPORTAL.15(10864).
Click Here
Liou, D. &Matias, C. E.,(2019). “Affirming Immigrant Families’ Educational Expectations: Race-Conscious Transformative Leadership Breaking the Educational Racial Contract.” SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice Education.Volume 4.
Click Here
Matias, C. E. &Aldern, J. (2019). The (Un)Common White Sense: The Whiteness Behind Digital Media. Journal of Postdigital Science and Education.
Click Here
Matias, C. E., Walker, D. & del Hierro, M. (2019). Tales from the Ivory Tower: Women of Color’s Resistance to Whiteness in Academia. Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, 18(1), 34-58.
2018
Matias, C. E. (2018). Tell the Devil I’m Back: A Self-Reflection on the Radical Possibilities for Racial Justice. Taboo. 17(1). 4-14.
Click Here
Le, P. T. & Matias, C. E. (2018). Towards a truer multicultural science education: how whiteness impacts science education. Journal of Cultural Studies of Science Education.
Click Here
Matias, C. E., Nishi, N. & Sarcedo, G. (2018). “Whiteness and Teacher Education” invited Oxford Encyclopedia entry.
Click Here
Walker, D., Matias, C. E. & Brandehoff, R (2018). “Smartmouth: The Misconceptions of Black and Brown Girls Who Have Experienced Trauma” Bank Street Occasional Paper Series. No. 38.
Click Here
Grossland, T. & Matias, C. E. (2018). “Fervent Fortitudes: Exploring Emotions And Racial Literacy As Antiracist Pedagogy.” Journal of Curriculum Theory, 32(2). 72-83.
Click Here
2017
Cabrera, N., Matias, C. E., & Montoya, R. (2017). Activism or slacktivism?: The Potential and pitfalls of social media in contemporary student activism. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.
Click Here
Matias, C. E. & Newlove, P. (2017). The Illusion of Freedom: Theoretical Examinations in the Epistemology, Rhetoric, and Emotionality of Whiteness. Equity, Excellence, and Education.
Click Here
Matias, C. E. & Newlove, P. (2017). “Better the devil you see than the one you don’t”: Bearing Witness to Emboldened En/Whitening Epistemology in the Era of Trump. Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
Click Here
Matias, C. E. (2017). “When Whiteness Attacks: How This Pinay Defends Racially Just Teacher Education: Journal of Curriculum and Social Justice.
Click Here
Matias, C. E., Henry, A. & Darland, C. (2017). The Twin Tale of Whiteness: Exploring the Emotional Roller Coaster of Teaching and Learning about Whiteness.Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. 16(1),7-29.
Click Here
2016
Matias, C. E. (2016). “Mommy, is being brown bad?”: Critical Race Parenting in a “Post-Race” Era. Journal of Race and Pedagogy. 1(3). Article 1.
Click Here
Montoya, R., Matias, C. E., Nishi, N., Sarcedo, G. (2016). Words are Wind: Using DuBois and Bourdieu to ‘Unveil’ the Capricious Nature of Gifted and Talented Programs. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies. 14(1). 127-143.
Click Here
Nishi, N. W., Matias, C. E., Montoya, R., & Sarcedo, G. L. (2016). Whiteness FAQ: Responses and Tools for Confronting College Classroom Questions. Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis, 5(1), Article 4.
Click Here
Matias, C. E., & Mackey, J. (2016). Breakin’ Down Whiteness in Antiracist Teaching: Introducing Critical Whiteness Pedagogy. The Urban Review, 48(1), 1-19.
Click Here
DePouw, C. & Matias, C. E. (2016). Critical Race Parenting: Understanding Scholarship/Activism in Parenting Our Children. Journal of Educational Studies. 52(03), 237- 259.
Click Here
Matias, C. E., Montoya, R., & Nishi, N. W. (2016). Blocking CRT: How the Emotionality of Whiteness Blocks CRT in Urban Teacher Education. Educational Studies, 52(1), 1-19.
Click Here
Matias, C. E. & Grosland, T. (2016). “Digitalstorytelling as Racial Justice: Digital Hopes for Deconstructing Whiteness in Teacher Education” Journal of Teacher Education, 1-13.
Click Here
2015
Nishi, N. Matias, C. E., & Montoya, R. (2015). “Exposing the White Avatar: Projections, Justifications, and the Ever-Evolving American Racism.” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 21(5), 459-473.
Click Here
Montoya, R., Matias, C. E., & Nishi, N. (2015). “American Chimera: The Ever- Present Domination Of Whiteness, Patriarchy, And Capitalism…A Parable.” Journal of Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1-12.
Click Here
Matias, C. E. (2015) “Why do you make me hate myself?” Love, Abuse, and Whiteness in Urban Teacher Education. Teaching Education. 27(2), 194-211.
Click Here
Sarcedo, G., Matias, C. E., Montoya, R. & Nishi, N. (2015). Dirty Dancing with Race and Class: Microaggressions toward First-Generation and Low Income College Students of Color. Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs. 2(1), 1-17.
Click Here
Matias, C. E. (2015). White Skin, Black Friend: A Fanonian application to theorize racial fetish in teacher education. Journal of Educational Philosophy and Theory, 48(3), 221-236.
Click Here
2014
Matias, C. E. & Zembylas, M. (2014) “When saying you care is not really caring”: Whiteness and the Role of Disgust. Journal of Critical Studies in Education. 55(3). 319-337.
Click Here
Matias, C. E. & Allen, R. L. (2014). “Do You Feel Me?” Amplifying Messages of Love in Critical Race Theory. Journal of Educational Foundations.
Purchase Here
Viesca, K. M., Matias, C. E., Garrison-Wade, D., Galindo, R., & Tandon, M.(2014). “Push it real good!”: The challenge of challenging dominant discourses regarding race in teacher education. Critical Studies in Education. 5(11), 1-24.
Click Here
Matias, C. E. (2014). And our feelings, just don’t feel it anymore”: Re-Feeling Whiteness, Resistance, and Emotionality. Understanding and Dismantling Privilege. 4(2). 134-153.
Click Here
Matias, C. E., Mitchell, K., Wade-Garrison, D., Tandon, M & Galindo, R. (2014).“What is Critical Whiteness doing in OUR Nice Field like Critical Race Theory?” Equity & Excellence. 47(3), 289-304.
Click Here
Matias, C. E. & Liou, D. (2014). “Tending to the Heart of Communities of Color Towards Critical Race Teacher Activism” Urban Education, 50(5), 601-625.
Click Here
Matias, C. E. & Allen, R. L. (2014) “Loving Whiteness to Death: Sadomasochism, Emotionality, and the Possibility of Humanizing Love” Berkeley Review of Education. 4(2), 285-309.
Click Here
2013
Matias, C. E. (2013). Check Yo’Self Before You Wreck Yo’Self and Our Kids: Culturally Responsive White Teachers? Interdisciplinary Journal of Teaching and Learning. 3(2). 67-80.
Click Here
Matias, C. E. & DiAngelo, R. (2013). “Beyond the Face of Race: Emo-Cognitive Explorations of White Neurosis and Racial Cray-Cray” Educational Foundations. 27(3-4). 3-20.
Click Here
Matias, C. E. (2013). “Tears Worth Telling: Urban Teaching and the Possibilities of Racial Justice” Multicultural Perspectives 15(4). 187-193.
Click Here
Matias, C. E. (2013). “On the Flip Side: Unveiling the Dangerous Minds of White Teacher Candidates” Teacher Education Quarterly. 40(2). 53-74.
Click Here
2012
Matias, C. E. (2012). Who you callin’ White? A Critical Counterstory of Colouring White Identity” Race, Ethnicity, and Education. 16(3), 291-315.
Click Here
Matias, C. E. (2012). Beginning with Me: Accounting for a Researcher of Color’s Counterstories in Socially Just Qualitative Design” Journal of Critical Thought & Praxis. 1(1), 119-143.
Click Here