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Beyond white defensiveness: White self doubt in a white teacher affinity group
This dissertation attempts to model how white educators can critically examine their attempts and missed attempts to dismantle racist policies and practices by looking inwards at themselves to deeply analyze what they are doing to help/hinder anti-racist efforts. It also considers how …
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White Sands
I’ve constructed a narrative thread that connects experiences, events, and artworks made during my time in graduate school. This narrative, which has the perspective of time, betrays the firsthand experience of wayfaring through the projects and places I describe. The narrative loosens as it …
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White Bodies, Black Gaze: Constructions of White Masculinity in White-Male Elite Discourses on Leadership and Diversity
This study examines white-male elite understandings of diversity and leadership to consider possibilities for exploring articulations of white masculinity. Sixteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with white-male leaders in their organizations who by virtue of their race, gender, class, …
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Teaching While White: White Identity Development and Antiracism for Educators
… The purpose of the project was to engage White educators in the important inner work of understanding White racial conditioning and actively challenging the institutional and structural racism inherent in our education system. Beginning with an understanding of race, racism and Critical …
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Refusing White Privacy
<p>In “Refusing White Privacy” I look at theories in White Data and Surveillance Studies around what data is, how it is made to exist, and for whom, in order to intervene in the conceptualization of data as an inevitable residue of human life and relationship. Through this intervention, I show that …
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THE WHITE FRAUD: WHITE ELEPHANTS, VALUE, AND EXCHANGE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
… the literary and cultural history of the term “white elephant” - a phrase that refers to a costly and burdensome object that is impossible to sell or give away - by tracing its origin in the American lexicon to the United States’ diplomatic relations with Siam in the 1850s. Although a certain …
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Multicultural Efficacy Among White Resident Hall Directors: Predicting White Privilege Attitudes
… of research examining the various aspects of White privilege attitudes. This study extended White privilege research by incorporating the predictive relationships of multicultural efficacy, multicultural empathy, multicultural experience, and multicultural training in assessing White privilege …
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White Racial Awakenings: Understanding How Turning Point Narratives Create White Allies
Over the past few years, White Americans have been exposed to moments of "racial reckonings" –where America was forced to realize racial injustice—often caused by police killings of Black Americans. The summer of 2020 sparked various discussions about White allies and their role in racial justice. …
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Investigating the White Identity of Historically White Fraternity Members: A Descriptive Study
… study is to investigate the racial identity of White male college students who choose to join historically White fraternities (HWFs). Previous literature found that students in these organizations are more involved in community service and leadership organizations, they are more academically …
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New Ways of Being White: White Families Striving to Raise Young Antiracists
<p>In asking the questions “How are white families striving to create antiracist family cultures simultaneously resisting reifying white dominant culture, and how are white children making sense of their racial identities in those families?” I had the opportunity to deepen previously established …
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White talk : white South Africans and the strategic management of diasporic whiteness
This dissertation examines resistant whiteness in the context of post-apartheid South Africa. Situating white South Africans as part of the powerful racial dispersal of Europe formed as a result of colonial expansion, it argues that since democracy, which has placed white South Africans in a weak …
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White River Group diagenesis
… characteristics of paleofluids in the White River Group played a vital role in controlling zeolitic alteration as well as the formation of calcretes. The White River Group is a terrestrially deposited sequence of mid-Tertiary age in the northern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains of North …
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Topics in White Dwarfs
The observations of the 12 known magnetic white dwarfs are reviewed and a list of mechanisms is discussed which could give rise to the observed absorption and polarization spectra. Particular emphasis is placed on the observations of, and mechanisms important in the 3 magnetic white dwarfs to be …
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