ABSTRACT

This important volume explores how racism operates in schools and society, while also unpacking larger patterns of racist ideology and white privilege as it manifests across various levels of schooling. A diverse set of contributors analyze particular contexts of white privilege, providing key research findings, connections to policy, and exemplars of schools and universities that are overcoming these challenges. Whiteucation provides a multi-level and holistic perspective on how inequitable power dynamics and prejudice exist in schools, ultimately encouraging reflection, dialogue, and inquiry in spaces where white privilege needs to be questioned, interrogated, and dismantled.

chapter 1|21 pages

“If Everyone Would Just Act White”

Education as a Global Investment in Whiteness

chapter 2|13 pages

White Privilege and American Society

The State, White Opportunity Hoarding, and Inequality

chapter 3|17 pages

The Unbearable Whiteness of Educational Leadership

A Historical Perspective on Racism in the American Principal’s Office

chapter 5|17 pages

Black and White Women’s Leadership

Disadvantage and Privilege

chapter 6|17 pages

Transcending Barriers in the Superintendency

The Resiliency Leadership Discourse of African American Women

chapter 7|20 pages

Whiteness as Policy

Reconstructing Racial Privilege through School Choice

chapter 9|26 pages

A Photo-Testimonio

Educational Expectations for Resiliencies of First-Generation Latina STEM College Students

chapter 10|14 pages

“Asians in the Library”

Sophistry and the Conflation of Affirmative and Negative Action