ERIC Number: ED663340
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 109
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ISBN: 979-8-3421-4357-8
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How Black Undergraduate Students Experience Whiteness in Postsecondary Education
ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Kentucky
Critical whiteness scholars have described whiteness as a system of oppression that privileges White identities above others and perpetuates White supremacy. On the college campus, institutional, social, and historical norms reinforce the educational status quo and work together to maintain a system of whiteness that marginalizes Black students. This study investigated perceptions of whiteness held by student participants who self-identify as Black undergraduate students. Through focus group interviews, participants were asked to share their lived experiences with whiteness on the college campus. With the words of the participants, I reveal how campus standards that align with White Eurocentric norms devalue the contributions of students who do not fit these standards and normalize student behaviors that perpetuate White supremacy. I explore participant reactions to behaviors they identify and classify as expressions of whiteness to better understand how Black undergraduate students experience whiteness on a college campus. With this, I offer suggestions to mitigate classroom, instructional, and campus-based behaviors, spaces, and encounters that offend and alienate Black undergraduate students. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
Descriptors: African American Students, Undergraduate Students, Student Experience, Whites, Power Structure, Student Attitudes, Student Behavior
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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