ERIC Number: EJ1215259
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Jun
Pages: 29
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Managing Whiteness: The Call for Educational Leadership to Breach the Contractual Expectations of White Supremacy
Allen, Ricky Lee; Liou, Daniel D.
Urban Education, v54 n5 p677-705 Jun 2019
Judge Robert Carter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) argued that White supremacy is the leading cause of de facto segregation. However, White supremacy is still undertheorized in educational leadership. Through the lens of Charles Mills' racial contract, this article interprets a controversy surrounding White teachers' expectations in a racially integrated high school. White supremacy operates in schools in the following ways: (a) meritocracy as property, (b) institutional violence as colonialism, and (c) racial othering as racial selfing. This article calls upon school leaders to "manage" Whiteness and disrupt the racial contract as a strategy to confront structural racism in urban schooling.
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Social Attitudes, Whites, Social Bias, Racial Segregation, Educational Administration, Leadership Responsibility, Urban Schools, Minority Group Students, Teacher Expectations of Students, High Schools, Equal Education, Small Schools, High School Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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