Recentering whiteness is a misnomer --it seeks to address a tension that is real but locates it inaccurately and thus the critique becomes absurd. If we can't find a moment when whiteness was ever notcentral to the social organization of the modern world, why would we be concerned about notions of "re-centering" what has never left the center? This paper mobilizes a Foucauldian and feminist approach to understanding white privilege and the problem of "re-centering" whiteness to call for additional studies of whiteness and white supremacy on the side of humanization. The author ultimately provides an alternative to critiques of "re-centering" that can offer new ways of understanding the risks and challenges of critical whiteness work in educational research.