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White guys on campus : racism, white immunity, and the myth of "post-racial" higher education /

On April 22, 2015, Boston University professor Saida Grundy set off a Twitter storm with her provocative question: "Why is white America so reluctant to identify white college males as a problem population?" White Guys on Campus is a critical examination of race in higher education, center...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cabrera, Nolan L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Colección:The American campus
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The unbearable whiteness of being: white male racial immunity in higher education
  • "Race just doesn't matter that much": white insulation, Occam's racial razor, and willful racial ignorance
  • "The only discrimination left is that against white men": the campus racial politics of "reverse racism"
  • "Why can't Stevie Wonder read? Because he's black": whiteness and the social performance of racist joking
  • "I almost lost my spot to a less qualified minority": imagined versus real affirmative action
  • "They'd never allow a white student union": the racial politics of campus space and racial arrested development
  • "Because it's the right thing to do": racial awakening and (some) allyship development
  • Conclusion: white guys on campus, what is to be done?