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, center...
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Rutgers University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | The American campus.
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Table of Contents:
- The unbearable whiteness of being: white male racial immunity in higher education
- "Race just doesn't matter that much": white insulation, Occam's racial razor, and willful racial ignorance
- "The only discrimination left is that against white men": the campus racial politics of "reverse racism"
- "Why can't Stevie Wonder read? Because he's black": whiteness and the social performance of racist joking
- "I almost lost my spot to a less qualified minority": imagined versus real affirmative action
- "They'd never allow a white student union": the racial politics of campus space and racial arrested development
- "Because it's the right thing to do": racial awakening and (some) allyship development
- Conclusion: white guys on campus, what is to be done?