The price of nice : how good intentions maintain educational inequity / Angelina E. Castagno, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Castagno, Angelina E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in education--United States.

Discrimination in education.

Educational equalization--United States.

Educational equalization.

Education--Social aspects--United States.

Education.

Intention--Social aspects--United States.

Intention.

Teachers--United States--Attitudes.

Teachers.

Minorities--Education--Social aspects--United States.

Minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]

Summary:

"This collection extends a line of critique from Castagno's book, Educated in Whiteness: white teachers' default position of 'being nice' and its problematic relationship with larger inequities in education and society. Castagno and her contributors explore how the frame of niceness is the primary one through which teachers problematically engage diversity and maintain ideological commitments to colorblindness, equality, and politeness"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

INTRODUCTION: Mapping the Contours of Niceness in Education

PART I: Niceness in K-12 Schools

1. On Average, What's the Mean of Nice School Interactions?

2. "It's Not That Easy!" Foundations of Niceness in Enacting Multicultural and Social Justice Education

3. Being Nice to the Elephant in the (Class)Room: Whiteness in New Latino Diaspora Nebraska

4. Niceness in Special Education: An Ethnographic Case Study of Benevolence, Goodness, and Paternalism at Colina Cedro Charter High School

5. Nice Work: Young White Women, Near Enemies, and Teaching inside the Magic Circle

PART II: Niceness in Higher Education

6. The Perfect Storm of Whiteness, Middle-Classness,and Cis Femaleness in School Contexts

7. Evaluating Niceness: How Anonymous Student Feedback Forms Promote Gendered and Flawed Value Systems in Academic Labor

8. The Role of Niceness in Silencing Racially Minoritized Faculty

9. The Self-ContainedScholar: The Racialized Burdens of Being Nice inHigher Education

10. Performative Niceness and Student Erasure: Historical Implications

PART III: Niceness across Schools and Society

11. Community Resistance to In-School Inequities: Disrupting Niceness in Out-of-School Spaces

12. "I Want to Celebrate That": How Niceness in SchoolAdministrators' Talk Elides Discussions of Racialized SchoolDiscipline in an Urban School District

13. "It's Better Now": How Midwest Niceness Shapes Social Justice Education

14. Schooling, Structural Niceness, and Not-Nice White Girls

15. "She's Such a Nasty Woman": Nice and Nasty as Gendered Tropes

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index

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Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-6149-2