Full Description
When issues of diversity and race arise in higher education scholarship and practice, the focus is generally on Students of Color. That being said, if there are People of Color being marginalized on college campuses, there is a structural mechanism facilitating the marginalization. This monograph explores the relevance of Whiteness to the field of Higher Education. While Whiteness as a racial discourse is continually changing and defies classification, it is both real in terms of its impacts on the campus racial dynamics. Highlighting many of the contours of Whiteness in higher education, this volume explores the influence of Whiteness on interpersonal interactions, campus climate, culture, ecology, policy, and scholarship. Additionally, it explores what can be done both individually and institutionally to address the problem of Whiteness in higher education. Ultimately, this monograph is offered from the perspective that racial issues concern everyone, and this engages the possibility of both People of Color destabilizing Whiteness and White people becoming racial justice allies within the context of higher education institutions.This is the sixth issue of the 42nd volume of the Jossey-Bass series ASHE Higher Education Report. Each monograph is the definitive analysis of a tough higher education issue, based on thorough research of pertinent literature and institutional experiences. Topics are identified by a national survey. Noted practitioners and scholars are then commissioned to write the reports, with experts providing critical reviews of each manuscript before publication.
Contents
Executive Summary 7 Foreword 11 Prelude 14 Whiteness in Higher Education: Core Concepts and Overview 16 Whiteness as a Racial Discourse 18 Overview of Monograph 27 Interpersonal Whiteness and Higher Education 29 White on White: Invisibility and Structured Ignorance 30 Microagressions and the Missing Perspective of Whiteness 35 Whiteness and College Students: The Empirical Scholarship 37 Conclusion 48 Institutional Whiteness and Higher Education 50 Space, Race, and College Campuses: Three Perspectives 52 Whiteness Informing Culture, Climate, and Ecology 58 How Whiteness Affects Students of Color 67 Conclusion 75 Developing Racial Justice Allies 76 Ally Development: Context, Challenges, and Concepts 77 Conclusion 93 Implications and Futuring Whiteness Studies in Higher Education 95 The Future of Whiteness Studies in Higher Educations 97 A Concluding, Cautionary, and Challenging Note 108 References 111 Name Index 127 Subject Index 133 About the Authors 135
