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Record Nr.

UNINA9910160318703321

Autore

Cabrera Nolan L.

Titolo

Whiteness in higher education : the invisible missing link in diversity and racial analyses / / Nolan L. Cabrera, Jeremy D. Franklin, Jesse S. Watson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA : , : Wiley Periodicals, Incorporated, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-119-37465-0

1-119-37462-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (142 pages)

Collana

ASHE higher education report ; ; volume 42, number 6

Disciplina

305.809

Soggetti

Multicultural education - United States

Education, Higher - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Whiteness as a racial discourse -- Overview of monograph -- White on white : invisibility and structured ignorance -- Microagressions and the missing perspective of whiteness -- Whiteness and college students : the empirical scholarship -- Space, race, and college campuses : three perspectives -- Whiteness informing culture, climate, and ecology -- How whiteness affects students of color -- Ally development : context, challenges, and concepts -- The future of whiteness studies in higher educations -- A concluding, cautionary, and challenging note.

Sommario/riassunto

"When issues of 'diversity' and 'race' arise in higher education scholarship and practice, they frequently mean a focus on students of color. If there are people of color being marginalized on college campuses, there is a structural mechanism facilitating the marginalization. Within this context, this monograph explores the relevance of whiteness to the field of higher education. The problem arises in that whiteness as a racial discourse is continually changing and being reconfigured. That is, whiteness is both real in terms of its impacts on the campus racial dynamics, but it also is fluid and defies absolute classification. Within this context, the current monograph highlights many of the contours of whiteness in higher education,



specifically exploring the influence of whiteness on interpersonal interactions, campus climate, culture, ecology, policy, and scholarship. Additionally, it explores what can be done--both individually and institutionally--to address the problem of whiteness in higher education. Ultimately, this monograph is offered from the perspective that racial issues concern everyone, and this engages the possibility of both people of color destabilizing whiteness and white people becoming racial justice allies within the context of higher education institutions"--Back cover.