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Whiteness Beyond (Just) White People: Exploring the Interconnections Among Dimensions of Whiteness in Higher Education

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Over the last two decades, whiteness studies, within the context of higher education, have seen a significant uptick. We argue that this growing body of work has often not been consistent in applying an understanding of whiteness as an ideology that operates across multiple dimensions in interconnected ways and, at times, overlooks the material consequences of whiteness to People of Color. To redress this, we offer a multilevel framework: the critical dimensions of whiteness model (CDWM). To build this model, we drew on the four I’s of oppression, and we synthesized critical analyses of whiteness in the higher education and student affairs literature along ideological, institutional, interpersonal, and internalized dimensions. We contend these dimensions do not and cannot exist independently, and they must be engaged in relation to one another to be critical and to understand the consequences of whiteness in the lives of People of Color, thus going beyond just white people. The authors then explicitly describe the CDWM, articulate how the model informs scholarship and theorizes whiteness, express the possibilities as well as the responsibilities afforded by studying whiteness as interconnected, and discuss implications of this work.

Nicholas A. Bowman was the Associate Editor for this chapter.

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Tevis, T.L., Whitehead, M., Foste, Z., Duran, A. (2023). Whiteness Beyond (Just) White People: Exploring the Interconnections Among Dimensions of Whiteness in Higher Education. In: Perna, L.W. (eds) Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, vol 38. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06696-2_12

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