Stylus Publishing (VA) Critical Whiteness Praxis in Higher Education: Considerations for the Pursuit of Racial Justice on Campus

Review Critical Whiteness Praxis in Higher Education: Considerations for the Pursuit of Racial Justice on Campus is timely, rich, and an important contribution to the scholarly literature. The editors should be commended for bringing together this cadre of scholars and leaders. Foste and Tevis brilliantly unearth the enormity of whiteness and its corresponding consequences on communities of color in higher education. This text is salient in challenging white supremacy and promoting racial equity in postsecondary educational contexts and beyond.--Brian L. McGowan "Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Teaching, Research, and Learning, American University, USA"Critical Whiteness Praxis in Higher EducationConsiderations for the Pursuit of Racial Justice on Campus presents data, analysis, examples, and counternarratives that illustrate how White supremacy is a normal and visible part of higher education. The chapters reflect voices that vary across race, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, other social locations, and campus positions that are underrepresented in critical Whiteness studies and address multiple arenas within higher education. As a Brown social justice educator who has worked with colleges and universities for almost four decades, I am inspired and hopeful that the critical truth-telling within these pages will shake us from safe, palatable approaches to systemic racism and White supremacy on campuses and inform new movements for revolutionary change."--Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe "Foundational Multiracial Identity Theorist and editor of The Complexities of Race: Identity, Power, and Justice in an Evolving America" Product Description College and university administrators are increasingly called to confront the deeply entrenched racial inequities in higher education. To do so, corresponding attention must be given to historical and contemporary manifestations of whiteness in higher education and student affairs.This book bridges theoretical and practical considerations regarding the ways whiteness functions to underwrite racially hostile and unwelcoming campus communities for People of Color, all the while upholding the interests and values of white students, faculty, and staff.While higher education scholars and practitioners have long explored the role of race and racism in college and university contexts, rarely have they done so through a lens of Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS). Exploring such topics through the lens of CWS offers new opportunities to both examine white identities, attitudes, and ways of being, and to explicitly name how whiteness is embedded in environments that marginalize and oppress students, faculty, and staff of color. This book is especially concerned with naming the material consequences of whiteness in the lives of People of Color on college and university campuses in the United States.Part one of the book introduces theoretical ideas and concepts administrators, scholars, and activists might use to interrogate how whiteness functions on campus. Part two of the book explores practical considerations for how whiteness functions across campus spaces, including student leadership programs, fraternity and sorority life, faculty tenure and promotion, LGBTQ support services, and so forth. About the Author Zak Foste is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education Administration at theUniversity of Kansas. His researchcritically explores whiteness in American higher education. This work examinesboth how whiteness functions to underwrite racially hostile and unwelcomingcampus climates for Students of Color and the ways in which white collegestudents understand their relationship to race and whiteness. His most recentwork has examined how whiteness structures students' experiences in campusresidence halls and community service-learning programs. Zak received hisbachelors degree in sociology and political science from Western IllinoisUniversity, hi