The Secret Hurt
Exposing the Visceral Nature of Whiteness in the Academy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8923487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin Blaisdell (0000-0002-1825-1823, East Carolina University, corresponding author), Syntia Santos Dietz (Antioch University), Christy Howard (East Carolina University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 474-494 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1946 • E-ISSN: 1532-6993 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00131946.2022.2087656 |
| OpenAlex | W4283371317 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 46 |
This article presents an autoethnographic reflection from three education scholars—a white man, a Latinx woman, and a Black woman—on the institutional presence of whiteness in the academy. We started developing this reflection when jointly conducting a study of faculty and students of color in a predominantly white institution (PWI). Ongoing discussion of that study’s interviews and themes led us to write about how that work affected us personally. As our reflection progressed and we continued to analyze what we wrote, what started as a reflection on conducting race research became a set of narratives about our experiences with whiteness in the academy more broadly. We share those narratives to highlight the visceral nature of whiteness, i.e., the emotional weight and harm of whiteness’ looming presence in the academy. We also explore how the research act—when conducted as critical, collaborative autoethnography—can serve as a form of antiracist community building and help carve out space for speaking back to the othering and silencing white narratives of white racial spaces like PWIs
Aesthetics · Art · Autoethnography · Critical race theory · Harm · Institution · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Narrative inquiry · Racism · Social science · Sociology · White (mutation · White supremacy · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
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Feeling White
Interpretive Autoethnography
The Miner’s Canary
Second-Wave White Teacher Identity Studies
White Institutional Presence
Racial Microaggressions Against Black Counseling and Counseling Psychology Faculty
Duoethnography as Relational Whiteness Pedagogy
Unhooking from Whiteness
The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research
Listening to Our Voices
Translating the academy
It’s like this Myth of the Supernegro”
Strict fathers, competing culture(s), and racialized poverty
Navigating the Academy
Transgressive and negotiated White racial knowledge
Schools as racial spaces
Writing critical race theory and method
Engaging whiteness
Questioning the white body
Right to the Classroom
The Burden of Teaching Teachers
I Stopped Sleeping”
Out of Adolescence and Into Adulthood
A Critical Co-Constructed Autoethnography of a Gendered Cross-Cultural Mentoring Between Two Early Career Latin@ Scholars Working in the Deep South
Don’t Leave Us Behind”
Mapping the Margins
Performing as a moral act
Critical race theory
The Souls of White Folk
Race, Culture, and Researcher Positionality
You make me wanna holler and throw up both my hands
Living a Feminist Life
Education policy as an act of white supremacy
Against the Dark
Racial Microaggressions
I Don't Want to Die Before Visiting Graceland
What are they saying? Black faculty at predominantly white institutions of higher education
Social geographies of race
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |