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ERIC Number: EJ1386978
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0897-5264
EISSN: EISSN-1543-3382
White Women's Affect: Niceness, Comfort, and Neutrality as Cover for Racial Harm
Ozias, Moira L.
Journal of College Student Development, v64 n1 p31-47 Jan-Feb 2023
This critical narrative inquiry explored how white women's racialized emotions are structured by whiteness as a technology of affect (Leonardo & Zembylas, 2013) and connected to particular college experiences. Specifically, white women college students used claims of niceness and demands for emotional comfort as cover for racial harm, while anger with racism and frustration with their own white complicity (Applebaum, 2010) signaled an ability to tarry with white complicity and motivated actions in solidarity with people of color. Pedagogies of both discomfort and white complicity suggest ways to center marginalized and vulnerable communities while engaging white students in confronting white supremacy and its affective roots. These pedagogical approaches have implications for curricular and cocurricular education across and beyond higher education. Findings also suggested that theories of student development must account for the insidious nature of whiteness under white supremacy.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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