A Case for Decentering Whiteness in Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 19-34
Author(s):  
Jamie Utt
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
White Students ◽  
Students Of Color ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Traditional Curriculum ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Critical Whiteness Studies ◽  
Cultural Wealth ◽  
Critical Whiteness ◽  
Social Studies Textbooks

Ethnic Studies undermines and challenges the racism inherent in dominant education systems by centering identities and epistemologies of people of Color. While much focus has been paid to the damage done to students of Color by White teachers and the White standard curriculum, this paper addresses the intellectual and material benefit White students disproportionately gain from this curriculum. Through a mixed-methods empirical study examining social studies textbooks and standards from Texas and California, the author argues that the standard White canon acts as a form of White/Western studies that directly privileges White students. Critical Race Theory, Critical Whiteness Studies, Pierre Bourdieu cultural reproduction, and Tara Yosso’s community cultural wealth provide theoretical frameworks in calling for a broader implementation of Ethnic Studies programs and pedagogies while calling for reform of traditional curriculum and standards that act as couriers of dominant capital for White students.

scholarly journals Assessing Empowerment at HSIs: An Adapted Inputs-Environments-Outcomes Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcela G. Cuellar ◽  
Vanessa Segundo ◽  
Yvonne Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Community Cultural Wealth ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Cultural Wealth ◽  
Postsecondary Access ◽  
Hispanic Serving

Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) play a critical role in advancing postsecondary access and success for Latinx students. Scholarship has begun to examine how HSIs influence Latinx student experiences and outcomes, yet much remains to be explored. In an effort to inform future research of Latinx students at HSIs, we argue that student experiences and outcomes should be based on notions of empowerment given the historically marginalized status of this group. We propose a model to guide assessment on Latinx empowerment at HSIs, which builds on the Inputs-Environments-Outcomes (IEO) model (Astin & antonio, 2012) and integrates critical theoretical frameworks, namely critical race theory and community cultural wealth. In proposing an adapted IEO model assessing Latinx empowerment, we encourage scholars and practitioners to expand notions of what constitutes success and excellence at HSIs in terms of how they educate and empower Latinx students.

Peer Support of Graduate Students of Color Through a Formal Graduate Student Association

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-129
Author(s):  
Kya Rose Roumimper ◽  
Audrey Faye Falk
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
New England ◽  
Students Of Color ◽  
Degree Attainment ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Graduate Degree ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Catholic College ◽  
Graduate Students Of Color

This chapter explores the experiences of graduate students of color and examines the support systems in place to promote their success in the academy. The authors provide an overview of the relevant literature and pertinent theoretical frameworks, including critical race theory and self-determination theory, as they relate to the experiences of graduate students of color. Furthermore, the chapter describes the initiation and early development of a Graduate Students of Color Association at Merrimack College, a private, Catholic college in New England. The chapter include both benefits and challenges of participating in and sustaining the group, while offering recommendations for future practice and research. It may be of particular interest to graduate students of color; faculty, staff, and administration in graduate education; and researchers focused on graduate degree attainment among individuals of color.

scholarly journals Not White Saviors, but Critical Scholars

2022 ◽  
pp. 246-262
Author(s):  
Angela Marie Novak
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
White Students ◽  
Students Of Color ◽  
Gifted Education ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Critical Race Studies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Policies And Procedures

Gifted Black and Brown students are not voiceless; their voices are suffocated under the knee of systemic racism and white supremacy. This chapter proposes that the field of gifted education advocates for needed structural and systemic change through the discourse of critical race theory. A model of gifted critical race studies (GTCrit) is presented and described as both a way to understand race and racism in gifted education and to drive social change. GTCrit theorizes about the ways in which race, racism, ability, potentiality, and deficit ideology are built into daily interactions and discourses, informal and formal policies and procedures, and systems and structures of education, which disproportionately impact students of color qualitatively differently than white students.

scholarly journals The Social Justice Teaching Collaborative: A Collective Turn Towards Critical Teacher Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-39
Author(s):  
Brittany A Aronson ◽  
Racheal Banda ◽  
Ashley Johnson ◽  
Molly Kelly ◽  
Raquel Radina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Critical Whiteness Studies ◽  
Social Justice Teaching

In this article, we share the collaborative curricular work of an interdisciplinary Social Justice Teaching Collaborative (SJTC) from a PWI university. Members of the SJTC worked strategically to center social justice across required courses pre-service teachers are required to take: Introduction to Education, Sociocultural Studies in Education, and Inclusive Education. We share our conceptualization of social justice and guiding theoretical frameworks that have shaped our pedagogy and curriculum. These frameworks include democratic education, critical pedagogy, critical race theory, critical whiteness studies, critical disability studies, and feminist and intersectionality theory. We then detail changes made across courses including examples of readings and assignments. Finally, we conclude by offering reflections, challenges, and lessons learned for collaborative work within teacher education and educational leadership. 

Peer Support of Graduate Students of Color Through a Formal Graduate Student Association

2021 ◽  
pp. 1089-1107
Author(s):  
Kya Rose Roumimper ◽  
Audrey Faye Falk
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
New England ◽  
Students Of Color ◽  
Degree Attainment ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Graduate Degree ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Catholic College ◽  
Graduate Students Of Color

This chapter explores the experiences of graduate students of color and examines the support systems in place to promote their success in the academy. The authors provide an overview of the relevant literature and pertinent theoretical frameworks, including critical race theory and self-determination theory, as they relate to the experiences of graduate students of color. Furthermore, the chapter describes the initiation and early development of a Graduate Students of Color Association at Merrimack College, a private, Catholic college in New England. The chapter include both benefits and challenges of participating in and sustaining the group, while offering recommendations for future practice and research. It may be of particular interest to graduate students of color; faculty, staff, and administration in graduate education; and researchers focused on graduate degree attainment among individuals of color.

scholarly journals Emerging Tensions: The Variances and Silences in Survey Research with Youth

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
julia daniel ◽  
Janiece Mackey ◽  
Keno Walker
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Young People ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Low Income ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Youth Of Color ◽  
Critical Whiteness Studies ◽  
Youth Survey ◽  
Critical Whiteness ◽  
Community Spaces

In the process of organizing to build power through mobilizing young people against displacement from school pushouts, we observed ways in which low-income youth of color have internalized negative ideas about themselves and their communities and how they collectively challenge those ideas. Using Critical Race Theory and critical whiteness studies as a framework, we identify some of the ideologies that we observed in our survey research with youth. Drawing on examples from two youth survey projects that we participated in, this paper considers what young people of color thought they deserved as public goods in spaces that have been racialized under a white neoliberal logic albeit in schooling or community spaces. We then discuss our findings to demonstrate how these ideologies create tensions that must be considered when conducting survey research including any form of YPAR and organizing.

Including Critical Whiteness Studies in the Critical Human Resource Development Family: A Proposed Theoretical Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy W. Bohonos
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Resource Development ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Whiteness Studies ◽  
Critical Whiteness Studies ◽  
Organizational Settings ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Critical Whiteness

While the human resource development (HRD) literature has made strides to incorporate critical race theory, critical Whiteness studies has not been substantively addressed. White experiences need to be incorporated into organizational learning literature in racialized ways. Unpacking the racialized experiences of Whites in organizational settings is important because it challenges the often-unstated assumption that White experiences are normal and neutral. The uncritical centering of Whiteness is part of what makes the marginalization of racialized others possible, and critical Whiteness studies research seeks to contribute to the decentering process. This article integrates literature exploring racialized White experiences from disciplines, including history, sociology, theology, and legal studies within an existing framework for HRD. This research will place special emphasis on aspects of critical Whiteness that relate to the workplace. The purpose of this article is to advance a theoretical framework that will enhance HRD’s capacity for research and action pertaining to workplace racism.

The Calculus and Quotients of Social Illiteracy: Equations of Race, Responsibility & Critical-Ethical Literacy in Schools

2020 ◽  
pp. 001312452096208
Author(s):  
J. Kalonji Rand
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
White Students ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
White Teachers ◽  
Critical Whiteness Studies ◽  
Antiracist Education ◽  
American Students ◽  
Critical Whiteness ◽  
Critical Literacy Pedagogy

Should students in public schools learn to think critically about racial (in)justice and social (in)equity? The results of a recent mixed methods survey for educators revealed that a significant number of teachers did not believe they were responsible for helping their students develop the skills to critically analyze and respond to social injustice. Quantitative data showed that most of the educators who responded unfavorably, self-identified as “White” teachers of mostly White students; while most of the White teachers of mostly African American students held the opposite belief. Qualitative data provided some context for the rationales informing the divergent beliefs of these White teachers. Utilizing a combination of grounded theory and coding methods, I explore, illustrate, and analyze the responses of both sets of White teachers in an effort to illuminate and contextualize their articulated beliefs. Then, I interrogate the findings in light of their emergence along racial strata, using insights from scholarship in Critical Whiteness Studies and Critical Literacy/Pedagogy. Then I discuss their implications with reference to Robert Starratt’s “Virtue of Responsibility” and current theories of antiracist education. I conclude with a call for improving the educational experiences and societal outcomes of all students by naming and disrupting social illiteracy, championing critical-ethical literacy and encouraging an antiracist ethos.

scholarly journals A WHITE PALETTE GATHERING

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-131
Author(s):  
Karen McGarry
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Critical Whiteness Studies ◽  
White Teacher ◽  
Critical Whiteness ◽  
Blank Slate

Storytelling, a tenet of Critical Race Theory, offers a distinct approach for researchers engaging in narrative inquiry. This article models a fiction as research approach for creating a literature synthesis as a pedagogical strategy for teacher educators and pre-service teachers. The white palette refers to a painting palette, a blank slate or canvas, often considered neutral ground. Whiteness, however, is not neutral and this one-act conversation centers on examining whiteness as it impacts my role as a white teacher educator. The production, players, and script developed out of salient literature inclusive of Critical Race Theory, Art Education, and Critical Whiteness Studies. I am both author and a participant in this story. In this capacity, I disclose the impacts of the literature on my white teacher educator identity and reveal how I created arts-based data artifacts to evidence the overall story.

Sense of Belonging in Religious-Based Colleges and Universities

2016 ◽  
pp. 269-290
Author(s):  
Young K. Kim ◽  
David Edens ◽  
Oscar Espinoza Parra ◽  
Kizzy M. Lopez
Keyword(s):  
White Students ◽  
Students Of Color ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Christian Colleges ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Christian Colleges And Universities ◽  
Secular Institutions

Given the shifting demographic composition of the American higher education system and the need to understand how students of various backgrounds develop sense of belonging within a normative religious environment, this chapter examines how the level and predictors of sense of belonging among students of color at Christian colleges and universities differ from those for their White counterparts. This chapter provides an overview of sense of belonging with the purpose to understand the challenges and experiences of students of color in religious homogenous settings. The theoretical frameworks of this chapter are grounded in Astin's input-environment-output (I-E-O) model and Hurtado and Carter's sense of belonging study. While other studies have examined similar issues in secular institutions, the structure of the religious environment suggests unique patterns and predictors of sense of belonging among both White students and students of color. Implications for scholars and practitioners are discussed.

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