Jpb Gerald > Quotes

“the concept of ‘society’, against which antisocial and other ‘disordered’ behavior is measured, is merely a mask for whiteness, and considering that the epistemology responsible for these diagnostic criteria is itself an exemplar of whiteness, it is difficult to trust whiteness as an objective judge of what is and is not antisocial.”
― Jpb Gerald, Antisocial Language Teaching: English and the Pervasive Pathology of Whiteness

“We need to look at history, we need to look at sociology, we need to zoom all the way out from a narrow look at ELT itself and think deeply about Blackness, about dis/ability, about capitalism and settler colonialism and the faulty structures upon which our society is built.”
― Jpb Gerald, Antisocial Language Teaching: English and the Pervasive Pathology of Whiteness