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Showing 1 to 20 of 427 for “"whiteness"”.
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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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Reconstructing whiteness in Ambrose Bierce
… and satirist Ambrose Bierce through the lens of whiteness studies. It compares Bierce's work to the popular literature. Its primary investigation is into the ideological project of white-identity and national reunion as it is played out in sentimentalist war memoirs and plantation romances that …
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Whiteness Constancy: Inference or Insensitivity
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Transforming Whiteness: Exploring Transformation at Stellenbosch University
… in Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS), to try and illuminate novel areas of interest leading to nuanced, prospective, discussion. Using CRT, some of SU’s institutional attempts to transform are examined. A focus is placed on the Language Policy, given its central …
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Transmitting Whiteness: Librarians, Children, and Race, 1900-1930s
<p>In the wake of the public library movement in the southern United States during the early twentieth century, local librarians began providing library services for those whom they deemed to be their most valuable resources, children. Representatives of a new profession, children’s librarians …
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Capturing Critical Whiteness: Portraits of White Antiracist Professors
… applied through critical pedagogy and critical whiteness philosophies, the researcher highlights the following themes as they emerge: education, exposure, empathy, and engagement. This study contributes to the literature by providing examples of white professors challenging racism in a …
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Whiteness and the Return of the "Black Body"
… body as a site of lived historicity vis-á-vis whiteness as the transcendental signified or as that which takes itself to be "unconditioned." I theorize how the Black body, under the power of the white gaze, which is linked to cultural, symbolic, and material power, undergoes what I refer to as …
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Interrogating Whiteness in Science Teacher Identities: A Critical Autoethnography
… education spaces, I studied the ways in which whiteness manifests in science teacher identities of white, cis-gendered male science teachers caught up in entanglements between the white institutional norms of predominantly white suburban high schools and racial justice. Analysis of …
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Female teachers, whiteness, and the quest for cultural proficiency
… one key component: self-reflection in regard to whiteness. The interviewed teachers struggled with the theoretical foundations of critical whiteness theory and cultural proficiency, but they believed that the goal of cultural proficiency was one in which they would constantly be striving. The …
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Working Whiteness: Performing And Transgressing Cultural Identity Through Work
… thus performing their perceived role of whiteness. This scene is more than an ironic comment on the characters’ distance from the lifestyle of the J. P. Morgans of the world; their acts of whiteness are a representation of how whiteness is constructed. Such an analysis is similar to my …
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Identity Theft: HOAs and the Cultivation of Exceptional Whiteness
… is based on the need to preserve an exceptional whiteness – a whiteness that is exceptionalized through the maintenance and control of the physical and corporeal landscape and is maintained through a process of white governmentality which allows residents to be at the core of surveillance. The …
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"Whiteness and news: the interlocking social construction of ""realities"""
This dissertation examines how mainstream U.S. journalism consistently serves white racial interests and the racial status quo, or what I call white incumbency, despite its push for diversity and its stated aims to improve coverage of nonwhite communities. It is based on an in-depth ethnographic …
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Distant proximities: Whiteness and worldedness in contemporary Jewish literature
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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Examining Institutional History Narratives Through a Critical Whiteness Framework
… from an ahistorical perspective which places whiteness at the center of the history narrative. With a conceptual framework incorporating both critical race theory and white institutional presence, the study interrogated how universities are telling the stories of their histories regarding …
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Complicating Whiteness: Identifications of Veteran White Teachers in Multicultural Settings
<p>A scrupulous search of whiteness literatures in relation to multicultural education reveals a preponderance of scholarship noting White privilege and race evasiveness. Given contrasting scholarship arguing White identity as complicated, multifarious, and bound to social and historical context, …
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Policing the boundaries of whiteness : monsters made in the USA
… in my effort to mark out the racial violence of Whiteness embodied by the Klansman, the Night Doctor, and the White Monstrous Feminine.
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BEYOND HONORARY WHITENESS: IDEOLOGIES OF BELONGING AND KOREAN ADOPTEE IDENTITIES
Using Asian Critical Race Theory as a framework, this dissertation examines how Korean adoption contributed to constructions of race – racial meanings and a racial order – and the effects on Korean adoptees’ identity development. This dissertation asks the following questions: What role has Korean …
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The Costumed Catholic: Catholics, Whiteness, and the Movies, 1928 - 1973
… in this country assume that they attained whiteness at some point. Whether with the Irish in the late nineteenth century, or more generally when urban parishes began the move to the suburbs post-World War II, the historiography claims that Catholics earned white status. However, an analysis …
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Morally Fraught Identities: How Multiracial Individuals Navigate Race and Whiteness
… race, racism, and identity in the context of Whiteness, family, and education. First, I find that multiracial individuals who can be seen as White, at least some of the time, experience Whiteness as a wage (benefit) that is tempered in part by a “tax” on the benefits of Whiteness. This tax …
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