ERIC Number: EJ1403110
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 12
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White Campus Activities Professionals Navigating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts: A Critical Whiteness Perspective
Dustin Evatt
Journal of Campus Activities Practice and Scholarship, v5 n2 p50-61 2023
Guided by critical perspectives on race and whiteness, this qualitative study explores how White campus activities professionals navigate diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in relation to their privileged racial identity. Using a phenomenological approach, the findings reveal a common thread of white comfort and solidarity within campus activities at both the individual and institutional levels. Furthermore, this study offers recommendations for how White professionals can move beyond white comfort by integrating theories and perspectives of critical whiteness into their daily practice in campus activities. In doing so, White professionals can begin to disrupt normative actions, behaviors, and attitudes of whiteness within themselves, their teams, and institutions.
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Whites, Equal Education, Student Diversity, Inclusion, Minority Group Students, College Students, Racial Identification, Racial Attitudes, Critical Theory, Race, Advantaged, Institutional Mission, Values, Social Justice, College Environment, Organizational Culture
National Association of Campus Activities. 13 Harbison Way, Columbia, SC 29212. Tel: 803-732-6222; e-mail: education@naca.org; Web site: https://www.naca.org/JCAPS/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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