ERIC Number: EJ1212782
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 28
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Whiteness as Structuring Property: Multiracial Women Students' Social Interactions at a Historically White Institution
Harris, Jessica C.
Review of Higher Education, v42 n3 p1023-1050 Spr 2019
The purpose of this research is to explore the experiences of Multiracial women college students in a manner that frustrates the privileged location of whiteness and its intersecting systems of domination in higher education. To work toward this purpose, whiteness as property and intersectionality are used as conceptual frameworks to explore how whiteness structures 10 Multiracial women students' social interactions at a HWI. This study focuses on whiteness in an attempt to center Multiracial students, disrupt the normalization of whiteness, and complicate a body of higher education literature that privileges racial identity as the primary way to understand human experience.
Descriptors: Whites, Multiracial Persons, College Students, Females, Social Attitudes, Social Bias, Higher Education, Student Experience, Racial Composition, Racial Factors, Classroom Environment, Interaction, Racial Bias, Student Attitudes, College Environment
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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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