Whiteness as Giftedness
Racial Formation at an Urban High School
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2485227 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Annegret Staiger (Clarkson University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 161-181 |
| Publication date | 2004-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Problems (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7791 • E-ISSN: 1533-8533 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1525/sp.2004.51.2.161 |
| OpenAlex | W2145346227 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
| References cited | 26 |
By examining a gifted magnet of an urban California high school as a racial project, this study contributes to our understanding of racial formation. The study analyzes the organizational and representational practices of this voluntary desegregation tool—a partial-site magnet program for “gifted” students—and its impact on students inside and outside the program. In doing so, the study reveals how, in contrast to its stated mission, this form of voluntary desegregation actually constitutes a form of resegregation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this research reveals a series of practices that have produced exclusionary access to the gifted program, limited the interaction between magnet and non-magnet students, and instituted an apparently color-blind discourse of the gifted as in need of protection, all contributing to a widespread though complex and contradictory notion of whiteness as giftedness. Such notions run counter to the original intent of the desegregation ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. Revealing the processes by which a desegregation instrument facilitates such contradictory outcomes provides critical insights into the dynamic nature of racial formation
Desegregation · Ethnography · Pedagogy · Political science · Racial integration · Sociology · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Higher Education Research Studies · Public Administration · School Choice and Performance
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in School Discipline
Mission Accomplished? Critique, Justification, and Efforts to Diversify Gifted Education
Do magnet and charter schools exacerbate or ameliorate inequality
Black and (E)raced
An exploration of the relationships between student racial background and the school sub-contexts of office discipline referrals
Racializing smartness
Naming giftedness
Justice-in-the-doing
American” as a Proxy for “Whiteness
Parents’ Views of a Gifted and Talented Phase Out Proposal
Networks of Encouragement
Paths to Legislation or Litigation for Educational Privilege
The Foundation of Racial Disparities in the Standardized Testing Era
Of the Coming of John
The Multiple Meanings of (In)Equity
Racial stories as learning moments
Missing the Forest for the Trees
The White Kid Can Do Whatever He Wants
Standing Out and Sorting In
Smartness as a Cultural Practice in Schools
Talking Race, Marketing Culture
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Latina/o Students in Majority White Schools
Conundrums of Integration
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Racial Mismatch in the Classroom
Racial Formation in Perspective
Cinco de Mayo, Normative Whiteness, and the Marginalization of Mexican-Descent Students
When Schools Choose
The racialized construction of exceptionality
Repelling the 'Rutter
Keeping track
Communities of Difference
The Politics of Culture
Detracking
The bell curve
Racial Formation in the United States from the 1960s to the 1980s, by Michael Omi and Howard Winant
The Forms of Capital
Racism Without Racists
White Privilege
The Carrot or the Stick for School Desegregation Policy
The Victim Ideology of White Supremacists and White Separatists in the United States
Magnet Schools and the Pursuit of Racial Balance
Ethnic Options
A threat in the air
Sociodemographic Diversity, Correlated Achievement, and De Facto Tracking
Moments of Social Inclusion and Exclusion Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Family-School Relationships
Rethinking Victimization
White Means Never Having to Say You're Ethnic
White Supremacists and the (Pan-)Ethnic Imperative
| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,71 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |