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ERIC Number: EJ734165
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Nov
Pages: 24
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0042-0972
White on White: Researcher Reflexivity and the Logics of Privilege in White Schools Undertaking Reform
Gordon, Jenny
Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, v37 n4 p279-302 Nov 2005
I use this paper to reexamine my role as a White researcher on a multiracial research team. I reanalyze data I collected during an evaluation project to reveal how I avoided seeing race in the schools I visited and how I dodged discussions of race with members of those school communities. By analyzing my own discursive practice, I introduce a series of logics enacted through a variety of strategies that I used to manage race talk. The purpose of this paper is two-fold: (1) an analysis of the strategies I used to sustain White privilege and (2) an examination of the logics of those strategies in order to understand the power they have in reproducing inequity. Only by understanding the self-perpetuating nature of White privilege will we be able to begin to dismantle it.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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