Doing race and ethnicity: exploring the lived experience of whiteness at a Danish Public School
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Doing race and ethnicity : exploring the lived experience of whiteness at a Danish Public School. / Tørslev, Mette Kirstine; Nørredam, Marie; Vitus, Kathrine.
I: Whiteness and Education, Bind 1, Nr. 2, 02.07.2016, s. 137-149.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Doing race and ethnicity
T2 - exploring the lived experience of whiteness at a Danish Public School
AU - Tørslev, Mette Kirstine
AU - Nørredam, Marie
AU - Vitus, Kathrine
PY - 2016/7/2
Y1 - 2016/7/2
N2 - This article addresses race and ethnicity as social practices among young students at a Danish public sports school and explores how these practices engage with emotional well-being in the institutional context. The study is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in two school classes in 2012–2013 using multiple qualitative methods. Taking a phenomenological practice approach, the article addresses how racial (and ethnic) practices affect everyday school life. The analysis shows how a common-sense, habitual background of whiteness positions non-white bodies as different and ‘non-belonging’, thus shaping experiences of being ‘out of place’. These experiences are stressful to students in the study and foster a self-awareness that restrains the body from engaging habitually in the world and that obstructs emotional well-being. The article argues that a reluctance to acknowledge social practices as racial enables everyday racism while blocking the positions available to speak out against ethnic and racial discriminatory experiences.
AB - This article addresses race and ethnicity as social practices among young students at a Danish public sports school and explores how these practices engage with emotional well-being in the institutional context. The study is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in two school classes in 2012–2013 using multiple qualitative methods. Taking a phenomenological practice approach, the article addresses how racial (and ethnic) practices affect everyday school life. The analysis shows how a common-sense, habitual background of whiteness positions non-white bodies as different and ‘non-belonging’, thus shaping experiences of being ‘out of place’. These experiences are stressful to students in the study and foster a self-awareness that restrains the body from engaging habitually in the world and that obstructs emotional well-being. The article argues that a reluctance to acknowledge social practices as racial enables everyday racism while blocking the positions available to speak out against ethnic and racial discriminatory experiences.
U2 - 10.1080/23793406.2016.1260045
DO - 10.1080/23793406.2016.1260045
M3 - Journal article
VL - 1
SP - 137
EP - 149
JO - Whiteness and Education
JF - Whiteness and Education
SN - 2379-3406
IS - 2
ER -
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