Voicing Silence and Imagining Citizenship: Dialogues about Race and Whiteness in a “Postracial” Era

Narrating and reflecting on our experiences as organizers and facilitators of campus dialogues about race, we perform the possibilities of silence to speak about, with, and to matters of race and citizenship in the United States today. Starting with our own experiences of silence in the context of dialogue, we open them to readings and responses. This article offers our reading, but ends with the silence of a punctuation—a dash—leaving the space for readers’ responses to contribute to exploration of how pedagogies of silence can work toward social justice.