ERIC Number: EJ1025391
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 26
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 62
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ISSN: ISSN-1361-3324
Exposing Whiteness in Higher Education: White Male College Students Minimizing Racism, Claiming Victimization, and Recreating White Supremacy
Cabrera, Nolan León
Race, Ethnicity and Education, v17 n1 p30-55 2014
This research critically examines racial views and experiences of 12 white men in a single higher education institution via semi-structured interviews. Participants tended to utilize individualized definitions of racism and experience high levels of racial segregation in both their pre-college and college environments. This corresponded to participants seeing little evidence of racism, minimizing the power of contemporary racism, and framing whites as the true victims of multiculturalism (i.e. "reverse racism"). This sense of racial victimization corresponded to the participants blaming racial minorities for racial antagonism (both on campus and society as a whole), which cyclically served to rationalize the persistence of segregated, white campus subenvironments. Within these ethnic enclaves, the participants reported minimal changes in their racial views since entering college with the exception of an enhanced sense of "reverse racism," and this cycle of racial privilege begetting racial privilege was especially pronounced within the fraternity system.
Descriptors: Males, College Students, White Students, Semi Structured Interviews, Racial Bias, Student Attitudes, Victims, Cultural Pluralism, Minority Groups, Educational Environment, Attitude Change, Social Bias, Fraternities, Intervention, Multicultural Education, Racial Relations, Questionnaires
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers: United States (West)

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