Critical Whiteness Praxis in Higher Education

Considerations for the Pursuit of Racial Justice on Campus

Zak Foste, Tenisha L. Tevis, Zak Foste, Tenisha Tevis

• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781642672701
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

College and university administrators are increasingly called to confront the deeply entrenched racial inequities in higher education. To do so, corresponding attention must be given to historical and contemporary manifestations of whiteness in higher education and student affairs.This book bridges theoretical and practical considerations regarding the ways whiteness functions to underwrite racially hostile and unwelcoming campus communities for People of Color, all the while upholding the interests and values of white students, faculty, and staff.While higher education scholars and practitioners have long explored the role of race and racism in college and university contexts, rarely have they done so through a lens of Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS). Exploring such topics through the lens of CWS offers new opportunities to both examine white identities, attitudes, and ways of being, and to explicitly name how whiteness is embedded in environments that marginalize and oppress students, faculty, and staff of color. This book is especially concerned with naming the material consequences of whiteness in the lives of People of Color on college and university campuses in the United States.Part one of the book introduces theoretical ideas and concepts administrators, scholars, and activists might use to interrogate how whiteness functions on campus. Part two of the book explores practical considerations for how whiteness functions across campus spaces, including student leadership programs, fraternity and sorority life, faculty tenure and promotion, LGBTQ support services, and so forth.

Table of contents

• CRITICAL WHITENESS PRAXIS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
• COPYRIGHT © 2022 BY STYLUS PUBLISHING, LLC.
• DEDICATION
• CONTENTS
• FOREWORD
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• Chapter One: ON THE ENORMITY OF WHITENESS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
• PART ONE: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
• Chapter Two: TOWARD DEFINITIONS OF WHITENESS AND CRITICAL WHITENESS STUDIES - Disruption and Response-ability
• APPENDIX 2.A
• Chapter Three: WHITE NORMATIVITY - Tracing Historical and Contemporary(Re)Productions of Whiteness in Higher Education
• Chapter Four: WHITE RACIAL IGNORANCE - White Lies and Inverted Epistemologies
• Chapter Five: RELINQUISHING WHITE INNOCENCE - Slaying a Defender of White Supremacy
• PART TWO: PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS
• Chapter Six: EPISTEMIC ASPHYXIATION - Whiteness, Academic Publishing, and the Suffocation of Black Knowledge Production
• Chapter 7: DEAR WHITE PEOPLE - Black Women Students’ Perspective
• Chapter Eight: HOW WHITENESS WERQS IN LGBTQ CENTERS
• Chapter Nine: INTERROGATING WHITENESS IN SORORITY AND FRATERNITY LIFE
• Chapter Ten: THE PERMEATION OF WHITENESS IN STUDENT LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATIONS
• Chapter Eleven: POSSIBILITIES AND FORECLOSURES - Exploring the Relationship Between Whiteness and Anti-Blackness in Higher Education
• Chapter Twelve: THE WHITE RACIAL ENGAGEMENT MODEL - Unlearning the Oppressive Conditioning of Whiteness
• Chapter Thirteen: WHITENESS AND THE ERASURE OF INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION
• Chapter Fourteen: STARTING FROM THE MARGINS - Reflections on Challenging Whitenessin Higher Education
• EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX