White Women's Affect: Niceness, Comfort, and Neutrality as Cover for Racial Harm

IF 1.6 4区教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Journal of College Student Development Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1353/csd.2023.0000

Moira L. Ozias, Leslie Jo Shelton, Charles J. Thompson, Abdulatif Hajjismael Ahmed, Aman Sado Elemo, O. Hamed, Christina W. Yao, Evangela Q. Oates, Kaleb L. Briscoe, K. Buell, Jennifer N. Rutt, Amanda L. Mollet, W. Black, Krista M. Soria, Vanessa Coca, J. Brown, Fred Volk, Joseph M. Kush, Dana M. Malone, James D. Breslin, Charles H. F. Davis, V. Sulé, Robert Brown, C. Dolan

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Abstract:This critical narrative inquiry explored how white women's racialized emotions are structured by whiteness as a technology of affect (Leonardo & Zembylas, 2013) and connected to particular college experiences. Specifically, white women college students used claims of niceness and demands for emotional comfort as cover for racial harm, while anger with racism and frustration with their own white complicity (Applebaum, 2010) signaled an ability to tarry with white complicity and motivated actions in solidarity with people of color. Pedagogies of both discomfort and white complicity suggest ways to center marginalized and vulnerable communities while engaging white students in confronting white supremacy and its affective roots. These pedagogical approaches have implications for curricular and cocurricular education across and beyond higher education. Findings also suggested that theories of student development must account for the insidious nature of whiteness under white supremacy.

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白人女性的情感：作为种族伤害掩护的得体、舒适和中立

摘要:这项批判性的叙事研究探讨了白人女性的种族化情绪是如何被白人作为一种情感技术所构建的(Leonardo & Zembylas, 2013)，并与特定的大学经历联系在一起。具体来说，白人女大学生用友善和情感安慰的要求作为种族伤害的掩护，而对种族主义的愤怒和对自己的白人同谋的沮丧(Applebaum, 2010)表明她们有能力与白人同谋保持联系，并积极采取行动与有色人种团结一致。不适和白人同谋的教学法都提出了一些方法，可以让边缘化和脆弱的社区集中起来，同时让白人学生参与对抗白人至上主义及其情感根源。这些教学方法对高等教育内外的课程和课程教育都有影响。研究结果还表明，学生发展理论必须解释白人至上主义下白人的阴险本质。

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Journal of College Student Development Multiple-

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2.90

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Published six times per year for the American College Personnel Association.Founded in 1959, the Journal of College Student Development has been the leading source of research about college students and the field of student affairs for over four decades. JCSD is the largest empirical research journal in the field of student affairs and higher education, and is the official journal of the American College Personnel Association.