How colour evasiveness reproduces whiteness in Swedish universities

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ID2965752
AutoresHeather Mendick (0000-0003-4902-5519, Independent Academic), Eva Silfver (0000-0001-6413-6538, Umeå University, autor correspondente), Maria Berge (0000-0003-3614-1692, Umeå University), Andreas Ottemo (0000-0001-6050-7020, University of Gothenburg)
Ano2024
Volume30
Fascículo3
Páginas261-277
Data de publicação2024-05-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Identities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1350-4630 • E-ISSN: 1363-0296
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13504630.2024.2372013
OpenAlexW4400955867
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas28

We analyse how the whiteness of science and technology in Swedish universities is reproduced using four interviews with undergraduates involved in groups that work on making their courses more inclusive. Combining discourse analysis with a phenomenological focus on bodies, we begin with their nuanced understandings of gender inequality. We contrast these with their professions of ignorance about ‘race’ and racism and how they naturalise their ignorance. We explore how they create relations of proximity that ‘other’ students of colour and embed racialised distinctions within equalities work. We understand this within a broader colour evasiveness (an extension of colour blindness) in which whiteness is conflated with Swedishness

Conflation · Epistemology · Ignorance · Inequality · Racialization · Racism · Sociology · Educational Environments and Student Outcomes · Gender Studies · Philosophy