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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"white dominance"”.
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The effects of a culturally responsive professional development series on the attitudes and beliefs of teachers of diverse students in a Missouri suburban school district
… achievement gap between students of color and White students, and between economically disadvantaged students and students from higher socio-economic backgrounds is not closing. Given the demands and accountability standards required by NCLB legislation (P.L. 107-110, 2001), why aren't we …
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THE TRANSNATIONAL NARRATIVES AND STRUGGLES OF AFRO-CARIBBEAN IMMIGRANT WOMEN TEACHERS IN NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL DISTRICTS
… as immigrant is central to a system of racism, white dominance and nativism masked as patriotic values. Key findings include a deep analysis of agency which is a theme throughout the dissertation, neoliberal practices employed in the U.S. by corporations or state agencies to import women of …
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How Hollywood Stole My Identity: African American Representation in the films Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Get Out
… identity has often been framed in opposition to whiteness and the white experience in America is also interrogated. The works of James Baldwin, Theodor Adorno, and Max Horkheimer provide the theoretical background to this discussion of race as an element of identity, as well as within the …
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Recognizing Whiteness: An Autoethnographic Examination of Whiteness in My Life
The purpose of this research was to examine whiteness not merely as an individual attribute but as an ideological and structural system that organizes everyday life and grants privilege to those perceived as white. Using a blend of critical and evocative autoethnography, I wrote stories about my …
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"Our Generation Had Nothing to Do with Discrimination": White Southern Memory of Jim Crow and Civil Rights
The ways in which white Americans understand the racial landscape and their own racial identities are not well understood. Through the lens of the racial past, in this study I investigate how memory operates within the white racial frame, the dominant white-centric worldview, to uphold systemic …
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Minimized realities: the history of dental hygiene education in Kansas City Missouri at UMKC from 1950-2025 and the transformation of provider identity
… long been, and largely remain, predominantly white institutions, generations of students were educated within whitewashed historical frameworks and systems shaped by racial privilege. This study explores how racial identity—particularly white racial identity—is malleable and can shift through …
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Sport, space and segregation Pietermaritzburg, 1900-1980
… Driven by a consistent ideological desire for White separateness, sport reflected social hegemony and assumptions about relative competence and ability. Instrumental use of sport by the local authority, apart from a skewed use of economic resources to unite whites and maintain their distance …
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A collective case study to critically evaluate the educational preparation of registered nurses in Higher Education institutions in relation to pressure ulcer assessment and identification, specifically focusing on skin tone diversity
… learning was predominately framed through a white lens with White normativity being strongly reinforced through teaching and learning activities. This reinforcement of White normativity was evidenced through four main themes: i) dominance of whiteness in the teaching and learning of pressure …
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Small city neighbors: race, space, and class in Mansfield, Ohio
… one another, national processes of middle class white privilege, the lived practices of race, class, gender, and space under global capitalism, and Mansfielders’ subjective interpretations of middle class whiteness. I use ethnography, history and Census analyses to nuance dominant narratives of …
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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 …