Whiteness studies

A large part of what is being included in textbooks has been biased by the whiteness of our culture. According to Richard Hughes, “Critics have attacked American history textbooks for a stubborn adherence to a nationalistic ideology of unfolding American progress, a lack of attention to social class or the lives of women, and a penchant…

I was born in Mexico, brought to America before I was able to speak and thankfully learned both languages and cultures to my advantage. I consider whiteness to be how likely you are to be treated like a worthy human being. Whiteness is more about color than the European’s decent which is why some people like me are able to “pass” as white, or to be perceived as such. I do not think anyone who is mistakenly viewed as white is trying to fool…

(Buck 33) One thing that Buck states in her article was “given the tendency of slaves, servants, and landless free Europeans and Africans to cooperate in rebellion, the elite had to ‘teach Whites the value of whiteness’ in order to divide and rule their labor force.” (Buck 33) The elites had to show the poorer white that they have power over those who are black leading to the idea of white privilege. She talks about the construction of race because there were laws…

very young that I my skin looked different than others but I didn’t understand that my Whiteness was a part of identity. As a White person growing up around other White people I didn’t realize Whiteness was an identity or a culture. I thought my culture was American…

While starting to read the materials for the course the very first sentences grabbed my attention. “The United States is a nation where people are supposed to be able to rise above their origins. Those who want to succeed, it is believed, can do so through hard work and solid effort.” (Collins, Anderson. 2015) This was actually disturbing for me to read because it so far from the truth. We live in a society that has chosen to not change their views and ways of thinking about race. This system…

Values are defined by Johnson as “general guidelines for how to weigh one alternative against another”(Johnson 6). In this way, values allow for a group to have a set of points or guidelines to follow in terms of behavior and action. Many values correlate to guiding principals that can be extremely important for a culture to use as a guide. Some of the values that my family finds most important are honesty, trustworthiness, and teamwork. These values help us to set up expectations and…

The biggest problem with white privilege is the lack of acknowledgment. White privilege is something every white person has. White privilege is advantages white people benefit from on a daily basis. You cannot physically see white privilege therefore some deny the fact that it even exist. There is no denying that if you are white you will always have more advantages than a person of color. If you are closed minded you may not see what white privilege is or that it even exist. People act as if…

of this analysis is to examine how the system of whiteness and the concepts of colorblindness and white privilege influence students of color, affecting their schooling experiences and sense of identity. Accordingly, it analyzes how factors such as race, class, gender, and citizenship converge and foster negative experiences, which systematically disadvantages students of diversity. First, this paper explains the concepts of the system of whiteness, white privilege, and the colorblind…

Privilege and white privilege is there a difference? The text states that White privilege is “a set of advantaged and or immunities that white people benefit from on a daily basis beyond those common to all others” (Avakian, 2003). As I searched privilege and read different terms I understood it as, a special right like an advantage, something granted to a particular person or group of people. Though there is a difference between the two I can see why the term Privilege is attached to “White”.…

Student developmental theories describe the experiences of students, the holistic development of students, and how their experiences affect their development in order to inform the theory-to-practice-to-theory loop. In order to demonstrate a firm understanding of theory, one must be able to apply theory to practice. Student development theory emerged from the fields of psychology and sociology as student affairs professionals noticed the need to understand the experiences of students half of the…