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    Whitewashing our children's education: Examining segregationist school choice in the rural South

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    Author
    Windhorn, Courtney Heath
    Item Type
    Graduate Thesis
    Advisor
    Hagerman, Margaret Ann
    Committee
    Leap, Braden T.
    Rader, Nicole E.
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    Abstract
    In response to the national desegregation of schools from 1954-1976, white communities across the country formed segregationist academies to provide a privatized education to white children. In this study, I examined why parents in the rural South continue to choose these schools, as well as what this schooling environment means for the ‘comprehensive racial learning’ processes of its white, class-privileged student body. Drawing on 20 semi-structured interviews with parents who chose a segregationist academy in Mississippi as well as 20 interviews with children who attend this school, I found that parents justified their decision using racialized understandings of what constitutes a ‘good’ schooling environment. Additionally, this context of childhood directly influenced the kids’ perceptions of themselves as racial subjects, including the ways in which they justified their position in the reproduction of racial inequality. Overall, this study contributes to understandings of the ways that class privilege, rurality, and Christianity inform white identity formation and racial learning processes.
    Degree
    Master of Science
    Major
    Sociology
    College
    College of Arts & Sciences
    Department
    Department of Sociology
    URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/11668/20939
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    Mississippi State University Libraries
    395 Hardy Rd
    P.O. Box 5408, Mississippi State, MS 39762-5408
    (662) 325-7668
    (662) 325-0011
    (662) 325-8183
    Contact repository admin Report a problem Terms of use Privacy policy Accessibility MSU Legal