Cultivating Whiteness

How White Supremacy Continues to Matter in Qualitative Research

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21205798
AutoresGabriel Huddleston (0000-0001-5219-903X, Texas Christian University, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume14
Fascículo4
Páginas649-668
Data de publicação2022-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Review of Qualitative Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1940-8447 • E-ISSN: 1940-8455
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/19408447211049515
OpenAlexW3203648068
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas35

This paper posits the concept of cultivating whiteness as not only a characteristic of neoliberal society, but also as a potential problem in qualitative research. Building off of the neoliberal conception of the hyper-realized individual, cultivating whiteness is an example of how white supremacy persists in clandestine and pernicious ways by existing as more aesthetically pleasing in comparison to the more egregious forms of racism. It contends that by placing the onus on the individual to fight white supremacy as opposed to collective action, the result is a cultivation of whiteness, allowing it to flourish as opposed to die on the vine. The paper then moves to examine, broadly, the qualitative researcher’s susceptibility to whiteness cultivation and, more specifically, how using popular culture as an apparatus of diffraction lends itself to the same

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Qualitative research · Racism · Social science · Sociology · White supremacy · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics