269
Views
1
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Whiteness and Neoliberal Diversity: The (Re)production of Ideology through College Students’ Diversity Discourse

References

  • Aaro, B., & Clemens, K. (2013). From safe spaces to brave spaces. In L. M. Landreman (Ed.), The art of effective facilitation (pp. 135–150). Stylus.
  • Ahmed, S. (2007). A phenomenology of whiteness. Feminist Theory, 8(2), 149–168. doi:10/1177/1464700107078139
  • Ahmed, S. (2012). On being included: Diversity and racism in institutional life. Duke University Press.
  • Allen, B. J. (2011). Critical communication pedagogy as a framework for teaching difference and organizing. In D. K. Mumby (Ed.), Reframing difference in organizational communication studies: Research, pedagogy, and practice (pp. 103–125). Sage.
  • Ashby-King, D. T., & Hanasono, L. K. (2019). Diverging discourses: Examining how college students majoring in communication define diversity. Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 20(1), 9–18. doi:10.1080/17459435.2019.1572645
  • Baez, B., & Sanchez, G. (2017). Neoliberalism in higher education: Reflections on affirmative action. Thresholds, 40(1), 40–53.
  • Berrey, E. (2015). The enigma of diversity: The language of race and the limits of racial justice. University of Chicago Press.
  • Bonilla-Silva, E. (2018). Racism without racists: Color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in America (5th ed.). Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Cabrera, N. L. (2017). White immunity: Working through some of the pedagogical pitfalls of “privilege. Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 3(1), 78–90. doi:10.15763/.2642-2387.2017.3.1.77-90
  • Calvente, L. B. Y., Calafell, B. M., & Chávez, K. R. (2020). Here is something you can’t understand: The suffocating whiteness of communication studies. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 17(2), 202–209. doi:10.1080/14791420.2020.1770823
  • Chávez, K. R. (2015). Beyond inclusion: Rethinking rhetoric’s historical narrative. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 101(1), 162–172. doi:10.1080/00335630.2015.994908
  • Chen, Y.-W., & Lawless, B. (2019). Teaching critical moments within neoliberal universities: Exploring critical intercultural communication pedagogy. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 48(5), 553–573. doi:10.1080/17475759.2019.1683056
  • Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and the violence against women of color. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241–1299. doi:10.2307/1229039
  • Cummins, M. W., & Griffin, R. A. (2012). Critical race theory and critical communication pedagogy: Articulating pedagogy as an act of live from black male perspectives. Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 8(5), 85–106.
  • D’Enbeau, S., Mesmer, K., & Socha, D. (2021). Discursive strategies and dilemmas of institutionalizing social justice in a higher education setting. Western Journal of Communication, 85(3), 319–338. doi:10.1080/10570314.2020.1798496
  • Dingle, M. J., & Sage, S. K. (2020). Undergraduate students’ perceptions of diversity over time. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 13(2), 120–132. doi:10.1037/dhe0000119
  • Endres, D., & Gould, M. (2009). “I am also in the position to use my whiteness to help them out”: The communication of whiteness in service learning. Western Journal of Communication, 73(4), 418–436. doi:10.1080/105700310903279083
  • Fassett, D. L., & Rudick, C. K. (2018). Critical communication pedagogy: Toward “hope in action. In D. Cloud (Ed.), Oxford encyclopedia of communication and critical studies (Vol. 2). Oxford University.
  • Fassett, D. L., & Warren, J. T. (2007). Critical communication pedagogy. Sage.
  • Freire, P. (19701993). Pedagogy of the oppressed. Penguin.
  • Glasser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory strategy for qualitative research. Aldine.
  • Golsan, K. B., & Rudick, C. K. (2018). Critical communication pedagogy in/about/through the communication classroom. Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 1(1), 16–19. doi:10.31446/JCP.2018.05
  • Halualani, R. T., Chitgopekar, A. S., Morrisons, J. H. T. A., & Dodge, P. S. (2004). Diverse in name only? Intercultural interaction at a multicultural university. Journal of Communication, 54(2), 270–289. doi:10.1093/joc/54.2.270
  • Harris, K. L. (2020). Time to #ToneUpOrgComm. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 9(2), 147–151. doi:10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.2.147
  • Hoffman, G. D., & Mitchell, T. D. (2016). Making diversity “everyone’s business”: A discourse analysis of institutional responses to student activism for equity and inclusion. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 9(3), 277–289. doi:10.1037/dhe000037
  • Hughes, R., & Giles, M. (2010). CRiT walking in higher education: Advancing critical race theory in the academy. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 13(1), 41–57. doi:10.1080/13613320903549685
  • Jones, V. (2019). Discourse within university presidents’ responses to racism: Revealing patterns of power and privilege. Teachers College Record, 121(4), 1–32. doi:10.1177/016146811912100402.
  • Kendi, I. X. (2019). How to be an antiracist. One World.
  • Kvam, D. S., Considine, J. R., & Palmeri, T. (2018). Defining diversity: An analysis of student stakeholders’ perceptions of a diversity-focused learning outcome. Communication Education, 67(3), 287–307. doi:10.1080/03634523.2018.1465189
  • Lawless, B., & Chen, Y.-W. (2019). Developing a method of critical thematic analysis for qualitative communication inquiry. Howard Journal of Communications, 30(1), 92–106. doi:10.1080/10646175.2018.1439423
  • Leonardo, Z. (2004). The color of supremacy: Beyond the discourse of ‘white privilege. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 36(2), 137–152. doi:10.1111/j.1469-5812.2004.00057.x
  • Leonardo, Z. (2009). Race, whiteness, and education. Routledge.
  • Leonardo, Z., & Zembylas, M. (2013). Whiteness as technology of affect: Implications for educational praxis. Equity & Excellence in Education, 46(1), 150–165. doi:10.1080/10665684.2013.750539
  • Liu, W. M. (2017). White male power and privilege: The relationship between white supremacy and social class. The Journal of Counseling Psychology, 64(4), 349–358. doi:10.1037/cou0000227
  • Liu, W. M., & Liu, R. Z. (forthcoming). The psychology of white supremacy, white privilege, and power. Oxford University Press.
  • Miller, L. J. (2019). Meritocracy and the maintenance of order. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 8(4), 76–81. doi:10.1525/dcqr.2019.8.4.76
  • Myers, S. A. (2016). Introduction to the special issues: Teaching diversity in the college communication course. Communication Teacher, 30(3), 123–124. doi:10.1080/17404622.2016.1191779
  • O’Brien, E. (2004). I could hear you if you would just calm down”: Challenging Eurocentric classroom norms through passionate discussions of racial oppression. In V. Lea & J. Helfand (Eds.), Identifying race and transforming whiteness in the classroom (pp. 68–86). Peter Lang.
  • Patton, L. D. (2016). Disrupting postsecondary prose: Toward a critical race theory of higher education. Urban Education, 51(3), 315–342. doi:10.1177/0042085915602542
  • Putman, A. L. (2017). Perpetuation whiteness ideologies in the U.S. college student discourse. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 46(6), 497–517. doi:10.1080/17475759.2017.1380068
  • Putman, A. L. (2020). Discursive constructions of racism and white privilege in a U.S. pilot seminar. Whiteness and Education, 5(1), 37–53. doi:10.1080/23793406.2019.1682465
  • Rudick, C. K. (2017). A critical organizational communication framework for communication and instruction scholarship: Narrative explorations of resistance, racism, and pedagogy. Communication Education, 66(2), 148–167. doi:10.1080/03634523.2016.1265137
  • Rudick, C. K., & Golsan, K. B. (2016). Difference, accountability, and social justice: Three challenges for instructional communication scholarship. Communication Education, 65(1), 110–112. doi:10.1080/03634523.2015.1096947
  • Rudick, C. K., & Golsan, K. B. (2018). Civility and white institutional presence: An exploration of white students’ understanding of race-talk at a traditionally white institution. Howard Journal of Communication, 29(4), 335–352. doi:10.1080/10646175.2017.1392910
  • Ruiz-Mesa, K., & Hunter, K. M. (2019). Best practices for facilitating difficult dialogues in the basic communication course. Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2(1), 134–141. doi:10.31446/jcp.2019.23
  • Sanford, A. A., Rudick, C. K., Nainby, K., Golsan, K. B., Rodriguez, S. R., & Claus, C. J. (2019). “I was gonna go off, but my best friend is white.”: Hispanic students’ co-cultural reasoning in a Hispanic serving institution. Communication Quarterly, 67(2), 158–177. doi:10.1080/01463373.2018.1557723
  • Saunders, D. (2007). The impact of neoliberalism on college students. Journal of College and Character, 8(5), 1–9. doi:10.2202/1940-1639/1620
  • Sciullo, N. J. (2016). Diversity’s troubling panacea: Difference studies in instructional communication. Communication Education, 65(1), 107–109. doi:10.1080/03634523.2015.1096950
  • Simmons, J., Lowery-Hart, R., Wahl, S. T., & McBride, M. C. (2013). Understanding the African-American student experience in higher education through a relational dialectics perspective. Communication Education, 63(4), 376–394. doi:10.1080/03634523.2013.813631
  • Tracy, S. J. (2010). Qualitative quality: Eight ”big-tent” criteria for excellent qualitative research. Qualitative inquiry, 16(10), 837–851. doi:10.1177/1077800410383121
  • Tracy, S. J. (2020). Qualitative research methods: Collecting evidence, crafting analysis, communicating impact (2nd ed.). Wiley.
  • Warren, J. T. (2001). Doing whiteness: On the performative dimensions of race in the classroom. Communication Education, 50(2), 91–108. doi:10.0180/03634520109379237
  • Waymer, D. (2021). Addressing disciplinary whiteness and racial justice advocacy in communication education. Communication Education, 70(1), 114–116. doi:10.1080/03634523.2020.1811362
  • Wilson, J. L., Meyer, K. A., & McNeal, L. (2012). Mission and diversity statements: What they do and do not say. Innovative Higher Education, 37(2), 125–139. doi:10.1007/s10755-011-9194-8

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.