Context + Framework
The concept where Whiteness is constructed as an invisible/ default norm, rather than a distinct racial identity.
What is white racelessness?
What was the number of white teachers interviewed for the study?
What is 32?
How did teachers originally see themselves as?
What is invisible and raceless?
According to the finding 2, this demographic now makes up the majority of U.S. students.
Who are nonwhite students?
Over 50% of U.S students are non white, while 80% of teachers are white.
What is the Demographic Gap?
What was the state where these hyper-segregated schools were located?
What is New York?
Constantly naming of their race due to students and family who made them notice their whiteness for the first time is referred to as...
what is seeing white
two of the three negative emotions listed as distress experienced by teachers in finding 2
"The set of social and economic advantages that white people have by virtue of their race in a culture characterized by racial inequality"
What is White Privilege?
This sampling method recruits new participants through referrals from people already participating in the study.
What is snowball sampling?
How was it that this study was able to challenge the theory of white racelessness?
What is by showing off how whiteness becomes visible depending on the social context
Teachers felt they were no longer viewed as individuals, but as representatives of their race
What is psychic freedom?
A sociological theory that says people make sense of the world and decide how to act based on the subjective meanings they give to things through everyday social communication.
What is Symbolic Interactionism?
This research approach builds explanations from patterns in the data.
What is the inductive method/research.
When recognized, teachers began feeling what they described as discomfort, humiliation and anger, alongside a feeling of unbelonging. What does this study define these behaviors as?
What is feeling white?
The finding states that this did not follow teachers home, making the experience strictly this.
What is localized?
White educators accustomed to being the baseline majority increasingly operate as the racial minority in segregated schools.
What is the Spatial Shift?
Teachers' racial awareness often faded after returning to predominantly white settings. What type of racialization is this?
What is localized white racialization.
Which of the two strategies teachers used to counteract the feeling of being white to perform race would be used to conduct self monitering?
What is protectionary?
More than this percent of U.S teachers are white
What is 80%?