“…Indeed, studies abound with accounts of how students’ emotions of belonging in schools are shaped by dominant discourses and stereotypical images of their racialized subjectivities. Some scholars have focused on the experiences of nonbelonging among Black youth (Grace, 2020; Wang & Hoffman, 2021), Latinx youth (Bondy, 2015; Rodriguez, 2020; Russell & Mantilla‐Blanco, 2022), and Muslim youth (Abu El‐Haj, 2007; Abu El‐Haj et al., 2011; García‐Sánchez, 2014; Guo et al., 2019). Across these explorations, the relationships among race, whiteness, and belonging have emerged as central to understanding belonging in school‐aged youth.…”