Educated in Whiteness: Good Intentions and Diversity in Schools
Educated in Whiteness: Good Intentions and Diversity in Schools
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白化教育:学校的良好意愿和多样性
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2014
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A. Castagno
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In Educated in Whiteness, Angelina E. Castagno reveals the damaging effects of an education system that requires those within it to be ‘nice’ above all else. The central thesis of the text, that current approaches to diversity education in the United States are actually perpetuating the work of whiteness, is successfully developed and supported throughout the book. Ethnographic research conducted by the author in two culturally and socioeconomically different high schools within a Utah school district is analysed according to critical race and whiteness theories of education. This text shines a spotlight on those who seek to absolve themselves and their institutions of responsibility for educational inequities by hiding behind good intentions and refusing to consider harmful outcomes of their illinformed assistance. Castagno concludes that educators’, administrators’ and policy makers’ continued refusal to recognise the impacts of whiteness on the design and implementation of US diversity policies is at the core of their failure to take substantive action towards socially just educational reform.