Abstract
In the study, I explore – 1) how white students experience space and emotions in a race-based diversity classroom, and 2) how they incorporate the course material into their daily lives outside of the classroom. The study takes a mixed methods approach to studying the experiences of white students in a particular race-based diversity course through observing their interactions and behavior in the classroom and interviewing 11 students, nine of which were white. The results of this study indicated that the racial demographics of the community in which the white students grew up in and white student’s racial identity development affected both their experience in the classroom and how they integrated racial knowledge into their personal lives.
Type of Work
Thesis - Limited Access
Department or Program
Sociology
Institution
Hamilton College
Degree
Bachelor of Arts
Date of Graduation
5-2018
Faculty Advisor
Jaime Kucinskas
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Citation Information
Liu, Sindy '18, "Challenging Whiteness: The Experiences of White Students in a Diversity Class" (2018). Hamilton Digital Commons.
https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/soc_theses/15
Notes
Access to this thesis is limited to Hamilton College, Clinton, NY.