Resumen
This paper aims to identify the ‘whitening’ strategies used by undergraduate students in a developing country with strong levels of ethno-racial discrimination and social mobility. We adopt a critical, constructivist theoretical perspective and a qualitative approach, in the design and analysis, for which we use three instruments: surveys, focus groups and the Q-Methodology. We find that students use several ‘whitening’ strategies (e.g. wearing expensive clothing, improving their diction and managing their bodies) in order to shield against the ethno-racial discrimination they face, and protect from the negative effects it imposes on their personal, academic and employment outcomes. Our findings also reveal that race is redefined in such a way that it involves more than just the skin colour, a process that is enabled by a relatively high degree of social mobility, experienced in the wake of a booming economy.
Idioma original | Español |
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Páginas (desde-hasta) | 77-91 |
Número de páginas | 15 |
Publicación | Whiteness and Education |
Volumen | 2 |
N.º | 2 |
DOI | |
Estado | Publicada - jul. 2017 |
Palabras clave
- Higher education
- Latin America
- Peru
- discrimination
- race
- whitening