White Guys on Campus : : Racism, White Immunity, and the Myth of "Post-Racial" Higher Education / / Nolan L Cabrera.
On April 22, 2015, Boston University professor Saida Grundy set off a Twitter storm with her provocative question: “Why is white America so reluctant to identify white college males as a problem population?” White Guys on Campus is a critical examination of race in higher education, centering Whiten...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The American Campus
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 1 b-w |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: White Male Racial Immunity in Higher Education
- 2. “Race Just Doesn’t Matter That Much”: White Insulation, Occam’s Racial Razor, and Willful Racial Ignorance
- 3. “The Only Discrimination Left Is That Against White Men”: The Campus Racial Politics of “Reverse Racism”
- 4. “Why Can’t Stevie Wonder Read? Because He’s Black”: Whiteness and the Social Performance of Racist Joking
- 5. “I Almost Lost My Spot to a Less Qualified Minority”: Imagined versus Real Affirmative Action
- 6. “They’d Never Allow a White Student Union”: The Racial Politics of Campus Space and Racial Arrested Development
- 7. “Because It’s the Right Thing to Do”: Racial Awakening and (Some) Allyship Development
- 8. Conclusion: White Guys on Campus, What Is to Be Done?
- Appendix A: Questionnaire Results, Part I
- Appendix B: Questionnaire Results, Part II
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author