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Hiding in Plain Sight: Understanding and Addressing Whiteness and Color-Blind Ideology in Education

 

Abstract

The author argues that color-blind ideology amounts to a refusal to deal with the reality of racism, which protects and extends White racial advantage, as well as shares thoughts on dismantling Whiteness in education.

Acknowledgments

This paper is adapted in part from an article by the same author, published in Multicultural Perspectives, 21(2) in May 2019, available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/15210960.2019.1606632.

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Notes on contributors

David Gillborn

David Gillborn is Professor of Critical Race Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Race and Education (CRRE) at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He became a member of the KDP Laureate Chapter in 2015 and will appear on a panel at the upcoming KDP Convocation in Louisville, Kentucky. Email: [email protected]

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