ERIC Number: EJ1449191
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 38
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Delegitimizing Race: The Role of Color-Evasive Ideologies and HESA Professionals
Blanca Elizabeth Vega
Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, v8 n2 p40-77 2022
This case study examined how eight higher education and student affairs (HESA) professionals' racial ideologies functioned in their understanding of racial conflict. Findings revealed that participants aided in delegitimizing students' perceptions of racial conflict based on their campuses' compositional diversity, history of racial conflict, and available diversity initiatives. HESA professionals viewed these areas through color-evasive frames that allowed them to acknowledge that racial conflict exists while simultaneously minimizing students' experiences with racial conflict. Recommendations for HESA professionals center on reframing racial conflict to address student concerns.
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Ideology, Racial Factors, Racism, Diversity (Institutional), Employee Attitudes, Minority Serving Institutions
National Conference on Race and Ethnicity. 3200 Marshall Avenue, Suite 290, Norman, OK 73072. e-mail: JCSCORE.research@gmail.com; Web site: https://journals.shareok.org/jcscore
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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