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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Angelina E. Castagno's up-close look at how whiteness operates in actual schools, and within one school district, offers a rare, ethnographic portrait of how policies ostensibly aimed at effecting educational equity actually end up reinforcing the status quo. We still have much to learn about how whiteness and racism function in everyday life, and
Educated in Whiteness is unusual in the field, offering an important way of seeing how whiteness operates across the system." —Thea Abu El-Haj, Rutgers University
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: Whiteness, Diversity, and Educators’ Good Intentions
1. “Equity Has to Be a Priority”: Converging Interests and Displacing Responsibility2. Engaging Multicultural Education: Safety in Sameness or Drawing Out Difference?3. Practicing Politeness through Meaningful Silences4. “It Isn’t Even Questioned”: Equality as Foundational to Schooling and Whiteness5. Obscuring Whiteness with Liberalism: Winners and Losers in Federal School Reform
Conclusion: Engagement and Struggle within the “Culture of Nice”
AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
