Overview
- Examines administrative and organizational responses to grassroots resistance in higher education
- Presents new strategies and models to replace those that maintain exclusionary Whiteness doctrine
- Prompts administrators and university leaders to consider new ways to share campus power, democratize systems, and listen more closely to student voices
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Race, Inequality and Social Justice in Education (PSRISJE)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This edited volume connects the origins of US higher education during the Colonial Era with current systemic characteristics that maintain white supremacist structures and devalue students and faculty of color, as well as areas of study that interrogate Whiteness. The authors examine power structures within the academy that scaffold Whiteness and promote inequality at all levels by maintaining a two-tier faculty system and a dearth of Faculty and Administrators of Color. Finally, contributors offer systemic and collective solutions toward a more equitable redistribution of power, primarily among faculty and administration, through which other inequities may be identified and more easily addressed.
Reviews
—Sumun L. Pendakur, Chief Learning Officer, USC Race and Equity Center, University of Southern California, USA
“An insightful, revealing examination of how higher education supports—and is implicated in—the creation and perpetuation of white supremacy. We see how ‘Whiteness ideology’ distorts all aspects of a supposed meritocracy to provide sophisticated machinery for racial inequality and exploitation. The predictable outcome is universities where Blacks and People of Color are routinely denigrated, devalued, disadvantaged, and in far too many cases.... destroyed.”
—Walter R. Allen, Allan Murray Cartter Professor of Higher Education and Distinguished Professor of Education, Sociology, and African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
“The concept of Whiteness as a social process is a difficult concept for many to understand. Whiteness brings up a lot of discomfort for people who do not have a clear understanding of it as a power dynamic. The editors of the volume have done an excellent job of assembling scholars who provide readers with a clear understanding of the power dynamic of whiteness.”
—Cleveland Hayes, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Education, Indiana University, USA
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kenneth R. Roth is a Research Associate with the CHOICES program at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, where he examines access and equity issues in higher education, with particular emphasis on the challenges and paths to graduation experienced by students of color, particularly Black males.
Zachary S. Ritter is Interim Associate Dean of Students at California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA. He also teaches social justice history at both California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA, and University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He recently co-edited Marginality in the Urban Center: The Costs and Challenges of Continued Whiteness in the Americas and Beyond (2019).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Whiteness, Power, and Resisting Change in US Higher Education
Book Subtitle: A Peculiar Institution
Editors: Kenneth R. Roth, Zachary S. Ritter
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Race, Inequality and Social Justice in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57292-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57291-4Published: 23 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57294-5Published: 23 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-57292-1Published: 22 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2524-633X
Series E-ISSN: 2524-6348
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 244
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethnicity in Education, Higher Education, Education Policy, Gender and Education, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime