When You Name a Problem, You Become the Problem(En)Countering Whiteness at a Small, Liberal Arts College as a South Asian American Tenured Professor
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When You Name a Problem, You Become the Problem(En)Countering Whiteness at a Small, Liberal Arts College as a South Asian American Tenured Professor
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After discussing Black and White racial identity development models (Cross, 1971; Tatum, 2004) in my “Multicultural Education” course in spring 2018, I asked my students to answer this question anonymously on notecards:

Based on whichever model of racial identity development that you feel fits you best, which stage of racial identity development would you place yourself in? Why?

When You Name a Problem, You Become the Problem(En)Countering Whiteness at a Small, Liberal Arts College as a South Asian American Tenured Professor 1

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