Contents Series Foreword James A. Banks ?ix Preface ?xv Acknowledgments ?xix Introduction: Whiteness in Higher Education: Racism Hidden in Plain Sight ?1 On the Promise and Problematics of Critical Whiteness Studies ?6 Overview of the Book ?8 1. ?Toward a Unified Theory of Whiteness in Higher Education ?11 With Maria Jose Hernadez and Lauren M. Badajos Whiteness in Higher Education: The Core Concepts ?12 Racial Structures and Ideologies ?13 Organizational Racial Concepts ?18 Individualized Racial Concepts (Linked to Systemic Realities) ?20 Toward a Unified Theory of Whiteness in Higher Education ?25 Conclusion ?27 2. ?Why Don't We Notice White Segregation? Whiteness, Invisibility, and Racial Exclusion ?29 Self-Segregation/Campus Balkanization-Three Decades of Debate and Race-Lighting ?30 Campus Self-Segregation: Who's Really Doing It? ?32 White Folk Segregate: So What? ?35 Why Don't We Notice the White Kids Sitting Together in the Quad? ?37 Affirmative Action vs. Legacy Admits: Another Case of "What Group?" ?38 Conclusion ?41 3. ?White Knowledge? It's Complicated ?43 Academic Freedom ?45 Academic Freedom vs. Freedom of Speech ?46 Whiteness and Academic Freedom ?47 Demands for Non-White Knowledge, I: Ethnic Studies ?49 Demands for Non-White Knowledge, II: Critical Race Theory ?52 (Academic) Racial Capitalism and Return on Educational Investment ?54 On Objectivity ?58 Academic Harm ?60 Toward Academic Responsibility and an Academic Hippocratic Oath ?61 Conclusion ?64 4. ?"It's All Part of the Plan": Whiteness, Race, and Organizational Structure ?65 Whiteness and Institutional Logics ?67 What Does This Mean in Structure and Practice? ?70 The Faustian Bargain of College Rankings ?71 The More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same ?75 Disrupting "the Plan" in Higher Education Organizations ?76 Divorce: Standardized Tests and Rankings ?78 Conclusion ?80 5. ?White Guys (Still) in Charge: Whiteness and Higher Education Leadership ?83 Whiteness and the College Presidency ?84 The Complicated Legacy of Michael Crow ?88 The Manufactured Outrage Against Non-White Knowledge ?93 Rehabilitating Higher Education Leadership ?101 Conclusion ?104 6. ?Whiteness Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry: The Anatomy of a Racial Non-Apology and Apology ?107 Case Study: The Daily Wildcat Controversy ?108 The Response ?109 Again?!?!?! ?112 The Anatomy of a Racial Apology ?113 From Denial to Accountability ?115 Conclusion ?116 7. ?Conclusion: Centering BIPOC Communities, Divorcing From Whiteness, and Institutionalizing Antiracism ?119 Divorcing From the Logics of (Academic) Racial Capitalism ?120 Cancel Culture? ?125 Fostering Joy: Divorcing From Whiteness Is Insufficient ?127 Endnotes ?131 References ?134 Name Index ?159 Subject Index ?165 About the Author ?171
Whiteness is the foundation of racism and racial violence within higher education institutions. It is deeply embedded in the ideologies and organizational structures of colleges and universities that guide practices, policies, and research. The purpose of this book is not to simply uncover these practices but, rather, to intentionally center the harm that Whiteness causes to communities of Color broadly in order to transform these practices. For example, Cabrera explores what academic freedom and tenure could look like if they actually divorced themselves from Whiteness. Cabrera also demonstrates how campus-based segregation is largely a problem created and maintained by White students, contrary to popular belief. Readers will dive into these and other pressing issues guided by both critical social analysis as well as hope for the possibilities of human liberation from oppression. This is important reading for university and college professors, scholars, diversity officers, student affairs professionals, and everyone looking for ways to center the needs of historically marginalized students. Book Features: Extends the work of Beverly Daniel Tatum classic text, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Explores what truly embedding antiracism and decolonial praxis into higher education institutions could look like. Uses Critical Race Theory to analyze the cause of racism and the effect Whiteness has on people of Color. Offers a critical but concurrently hopeful view that anti-racist futures are both possible and necessary.
Nolan L. Cabrera is a professor of educational policy studies and practice at the University of Arizona. He is an award-winning author, a recipient of the prestigious education early career award and the National Academy of Education/Spencer postdoctoral fellowship, and an expert witness in Gonzalez v. Douglas-the case that overturned Arizona's ban on Mexican American Studies.