ABSTRACT
The role of whiteness as property can be seen in the ways that university-based teacher education programs are structured. The idealist would focus on issues such as racist speech, diversity training, and visual representation of persons of color in the media. A racial project is simultaneously an interpretation, representation, or explanation, of racial identities and meanings, and an effort to organize and distribute resources along particular racial lines. Racial projects connect what race means in a particular discursive or ideological practice and the ways in which both social structures and everyday experiences are racially organized, based upon that meaning. Racial projects are attempts both to shape the ways in which social structures are racially signified and the ways that racial meanings are embedded in social structures. The program is currently in the early stages of implementation.
