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Toward A Cleaner Whiteness: New Racial Identities, David Ingram Sep 2017

Toward A Cleaner Whiteness: New Racial Identities, David Ingram

David Ingram

The article re-examines racial and ethnic identity within the context of pedagogical attempts to instill a positive white identity in white students who are conscious of the history of white racism and white privilege. The paper draws heavily from whiteness studies and developmental cognitive science in arguing (against Henry Giroux and Stuart Hall) that a positive notion of white identity, however postmodern its construction, is an oxymoron, since whiteness designates less a cultural/ethnic ethos and meaningful way of life than a pathological structure of privilege and narrowminded cognitive habitus.


Departing From The Beaten Path: International Schools In China As Response To Discrimination And Academic Failure In The Chinese Educational System, Natalie Young Aug 2017

Departing From The Beaten Path: International Schools In China As Response To Discrimination And Academic Failure In The Chinese Educational System, Natalie Young

Natalie A.E. Young

International schools are commonly depicted in the academic literature and popular press as offering elite educational credentials to an elite, oftentimes international, student body.  In this paper, I draw on a case study of a Canadian international school to argue that a new form of international school is emerging in China – one that offers a haven for domestic students from certain competitive and discriminatory features of the Chinese educational system.  Fieldwork was conducted at a Canadian curriculum high school for Chinese citizens in Beijing.  Most students at the school were internal migrants or children of China’s ‘new rich’ entrepreneurial …