Joe R. Feagin, Texas A&M University, on the blog Racism Review discusses an article in the new issue of Race/Ethnicity Volume 2 Issue 2 — Spring 2009 Special Issue: Race and Secondary Education: Content, Contexts, Impacts.
His post titled Black Girls in White Schools: School Settings and Racist Actors, June 20th states: There is much that is important and useful in this analysis of the pressures of white images of female-ness in society and in these predominantly white settings, and these young women are quite pointed and detailed in the gendered racism they describe in this school. These is much here to learn from them.
However, the researchers seem unwilling to examine directly and analytically the role of white teachers, white principals, and white students in such educational settings. These white actors certainly appear in the student accounts.
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