Whiteucation : privilege, power and prejudice in school and society / edited by Jeffrey S. Brooks and George Theoharis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brooks, Jeffrey S., 1970- editor.

Theoharis, George, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in education--United States.

Discrimination in education.

Education--Social aspects--United States.

Education.

White people--Race identity--United States.

White people.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

Race awareness--United States.

Race awareness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

This important volume explores how racism operates at various levels of school and society, while also unpacking larger patterns of racist ideology and white privilege as it manifests across various levels of schooling.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Foreword by Sonya Douglass Horsford

Preface by Jeffrey S. Brooks and George Theoharis

Acknowledgements

1. "If Everyone Would Just Act White": Education as a Global Investment in Whiteness

Globalization of Whiteness as Schooling

"Best Practice" as Perpetuation of Whiteness

Global White Savior Complex

Towards an Indigenous Global Education

Sentipensante Pedagogy

Conclusion: Indigenous-centric Education as Acts of Resistance

References

2. White Privilege and American Society: The State, White Opportunity Hoarding, and Inequality

White Privilege American Style: Institutionalized Opportunity Hoarding?

Institutional Opportunity Hoarding and Inequality

White Opportunity Hoarding in American Society: A Brief Overview

Historical and Contemporary Challenges to White Privilege

Note

3. The Unbearable Whiteness of Educational Leadership: A Historical Perspective on Racism in the American Principal's Office

A Historical Perspective on Educational Leadership, Framed by Critical Race Theory

Educational Leadership in the United States: Pre-World War II

The Search for an Intellectual and Theoretical Base for Educational Administration

Educational Administration and Social Turbulence

Contemporary Implications for American School Leaders

Notes

4. White Privilege and Educational Leadership

Framework

Organization of the Chapter

Key Themes from PK-12 School Leadership and White Racial Privilege

What Racially Conscious Leaders Do (Can Do)

A Final Thought

5. Black and White Women's Leadership: Disadvantage and Privilege

Introduction

Methodology

Findings and Discussion

Conclusion

References.

6. Transcending Barriers in the Superintendency: The Resiliency Leadership Discourse of African American Women

Literature Review

Best Practices in Increasing Superintendent Diversity in Public Schools

Implications for Research

Implications for Policy

Implications for Practice

7. Whiteness as Policy: Reconstructing Racial Privilege through School Choice

The Supremacy of Whiteness in Education Policy

Reifying Whiteness through School Choice Policies

White Ignorance, White Sensemaking, and School Choice

Evaluating School Choice Policies: Pushing through White Ignorance and beyond White Sensemaking

Advancing the Conversation around Whiteness and School Choice

8. Black Girls, White Privilege, and Schooling

White Privilege

#BlackGirlsMatter

The Problem with Whiteness

Just For Black Girls

9. A Photo-Testimonio: Educational Expectations for Resiliencies of First-Generation Latina STEM College Students

Expectations about Latina, Low-Income, First-Generation College Students

Status of Latinas in the STEM Fields

Academic Resilience as Forms of Survival and Resistance in STEM

Findings

Implications

10. "Asians in the Library": Sophistry and the Conflation of Affirmative and Negative Action

Right Victim, Wrong Culprit: Asian/Americans and the Attack on Affirmative Action

"Negative" Action vs. "Affirmative" Action

How Does Sophistry Contribute to the Model Minority Stereotype?

What is Sophistry?

So We Should Rush to Disaggregate? Not So Fast …

Theoretically Moving Towards a New Sociology of Defining and Transcending Stereotypes

11. Myths around the Recruitment of Faculty of Color in the Academy

My Background.

The Myths We Perpetuate in the Academy

Practical Recommendations

Epilogue

Author Biographies

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-351-25347-6

OCLC:

1080998415