‘Racism under the radar’: Student perceptions of school experiences in a multicultural context

Zinga, Dawn; Gordon, Megan Kathleen

doi:10.1080/13613324.2014.885429

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“…; Sue, Capodilupo, and Holder ), to this author's knowledge, no empirical research exists assessing white postsecondary youths’ observations of racism explicitly utilizing racial microaggressions as its theoretical framework. Similar research among white adolescents and young adults, however, has been conducted in Canada (Baker, Price, and Walsh ; Raby ; Zinga and Gordon ), the United States (Bonilla‐Silva and Forman ; Cabrera ; Hardie and Tyson ; Picca and Feagin ), and Britain (Back ). Thus, further empirical research using white adolescent and young adults as research subjects stands to contribute significantly to the literature.…”

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“…This is especially important in an era where critics have accused antiracism scholars of exaggerating the problem and effect of microaggressions by suggesting that they are “making a mountain out of a molehill” (Robbins ; Sue , 6; Schacht ; Thomas ). This perception, however, is not unexpected given that white individuals often downplay racist incidents (Cabrera ; Raby ) or define racism as an individual (Cabrera ; Raby ; Zinga and Gordon ), overt, delinquent behavior (Back, Crabbe, and Solomos ; Hardie and Tyson ).…”

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Through the Looking Glass: White First‐year University Students’ Observations of Racism in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Baker

2017

Sociological Inquiry

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Despite the growing interest in microaggression theory (Sue et al. 2007), little research has been conducted on it through a sociological lens. In fact, the psychological research that does exist has been from the United States (Constantine 2007;Mercer et al. 2011;Ong et al. 2013;Sue et al. 2008) and Canada (Hernandez 2010; Houshmand 2014), focusing primarily on minorities. One area that remains unexplored is white observations of racism. This is especially relevant given that Sue et al. (2007) contend that it is those who are most disempowered rather than those who enjoy the privileges of power who are likely to accurately assess whether a racist act has occurred. With this view in mind, this article utilizes racial microaggression theory to investigate the observations of racism among a cohort of approximately 170 white freshman (i.e., first-year) university students in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As this research is Canadian based, it presents an excellent opportunity to advance racial microaggression theory from an international perspective. The goal of this article then is to categorize white youths' observations of microaggressions in order to discuss and analyze their impact on minorities living in a highly homogeneous, white-dominated space.

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Through the Looking Glass: White First‐year University Students’ Observations of Racism in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Baker

2017

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“…Our data were collected as a selective sample (or homogeneous purposive sampling, see e.g., Onwuegbuzie & Collins 2007;Palinkas et al 2015) from three lower secondary schools from the city of Turku and five from the Helsinki metropolitan area. We wanted to follow the study by Zinga andGordon (2016: 1088) and to analyse the experiences of both minority and majority students. Therefore, we applied selective sampling that would include young people with immigrant and Finnish backgrounds.…”

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Discrimination, Harassment and Racism in Finnish Lower Secondary Schools

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Kalalahti²,

Varjo

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Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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In this article, we examine the experiences of students in the ninth grade (aged 15-16 years) in relation to harassment, discrimination and racism. The study was carried out at eight Finnish lower secondary schools with a high proportion of students with an immigrant background in 2015. The sample consisted of survey data (n = 445) and thematic interviews (n = 112) conducted with young people of Finnish and immigrant origins. Approximately one-quarter of the respondents said that they had been harassed or discriminated against at schools, and one-tenth had experienced this behaviour in their free time. In addition, almost half of the young people thought that discrimination is widespread in Finland. The more often a student experienced discrimination, the less they liked school. Experiences of harassment, discrimination and racism were especially downplayed when the respondent was the target.

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“…At Sunnyside while the other older girls often talk about their skin colours and rank each other it is important to note that Deka (who the other girls identify as being the darkest) does not contribute to these conversations but rather tries to withdraw unnoticed from the place where these conversations are taking place in a similar way to the participants in Zinga and Gordon's (2016) study. which often visit a mosque either in passing or as a final destination.…”

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Exploring young children’s gendered discourses about skin colour

Barley

2018

Ethnography and Education

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‘Racism under the radar’: Student perceptions of school experiences in a multicultural context

Cited by 21 publications

References 18 publications

Through the Looking Glass: White First‐year University Students’ Observations of Racism in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Through the Looking Glass: White First‐year University Students’ Observations of Racism in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Discrimination, Harassment and Racism in Finnish Lower Secondary Schools

Exploring young children’s gendered discourses about skin colour

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