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An Empirical Analysis Of The Effects Of Mexican American Studies Participation On Student Achievement Within Tucson Unified School District, Nolan L. Cabrera, Jeffrey F. Milem, Ronald W. Marx Jun 2012

An Empirical Analysis Of The Effects Of Mexican American Studies Participation On Student Achievement Within Tucson Unified School District, Nolan L. Cabrera, Jeffrey F. Milem, Ronald W. Marx

Nolan L. Cabrera

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Exposing Whiteness In Higher Education: White Male College Students Minimizing Racism, Claiming Victimization, And Recreating White Supremacy, Nolan L. Cabrera Jan 2012

Exposing Whiteness In Higher Education: White Male College Students Minimizing Racism, Claiming Victimization, And Recreating White Supremacy, Nolan L. Cabrera

Nolan L. Cabrera

This research critically examines racial views and experiences of 12 white men in a single higher education institution via semi-structured interviews. Participants tended to utilize individualized definitions of racism and experience high levels of racial segregation in both their pre-college and college environments. This corresponded to participants seeing little evidence of racism, minimizing the power of contemporary racism, and framing whites as the true victims of multiculturalism (i.e. ‘reverse racism’). This sense of racial victimization corresponded to the participants blaming racial minorities for racial antagonism (both on campus and society as a whole), which cyclically served to rationalize the persistence …