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- Title
An All White Enterprise: How the Normalcy of White Privilege is Maintained in US Supreme Court Race-Conscious Admissions Oral Arguments.
- Authors
Ward, LaWanda W.
- Abstract
A conservative agenda is being advanced that has taken control of defining equality and race discrimination. Over 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education (1954), there continues to be legal challenges within higher education centered on race; however, White plaintiffs have commandeered civil rights discourse to allege reverse discrimination. In order to shift the discourse of equity in higher education to empowering People of Color, it is important to critically question societal constructs that have stymied racialized progress such as White privilege. This writing advocates for the re-centering of race focused strategies that result in equal access for the goal of moving towards productive efforts of equity in higher education for People of Color. Through a Critical Race Theory lens and a Critical Discourse Analysis methodology, the normalcy of White privilege is analyzed for ways in which it is (re) produced by the justices and all attorneys in the U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments for higher education race-conscious admissions cases.
- Subjects
UNIVERSITY &; college admission; RACE-conscious policy; RACE discrimination in higher education
- Publication
Thresholds in Education, 2017, Vol 40, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
0196-9641
- Publication type
Article