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Blowing hot and cold about diversity: white middle-class gentrifiers and ethnically mixed schooling in Belgium
Goossens, Cédric; Muls, Jaël; Stevens, Peter et al.
2018In Whiteness and Education, 3 (1), p. 32 - 55
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Keywords :
Critical race theory; gentrification; middle-class; school choice; whiteness; Cultural Studies; Education; Demography; Immunology
Abstract :
[en] It has been argued that white middle classes act in the best interest of their offspring, even when these actions clash with their values. In urban contexts, parents often do this by avoiding ethnically diverse educational settings. Drawing on 35 interviews, this article aims to gain a deeper understanding of the school-choice process of white gentrifiers going against a dominant, white middle-class norm by selecting an ethnically mixed school in the context of Ghent (Belgium). Making use of critical race theory, it is suggested that, although these white gentrifiers have in their actions gone against the grain, they have done less so in their motives, as these are permeated by instrumental reasons.
Disciplines :
Education & instruction
Author, co-author :
Goossens, Cédric  ;  Equité dans les systèmes et dispositifs éducatifs (RFIE) ; Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Muls, Jaël ;  Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Educational Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Stevens, Peter;  Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Van Gorp, Angelo ;  Faculty of Educational Sciences, Institute for Educational Studies, University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany
Language :
English
Title :
Blowing hot and cold about diversity: white middle-class gentrifiers and ethnically mixed schooling in Belgium
Publication date :
2018
Journal title :
Whiteness and Education
ISSN :
2379-3406
eISSN :
2379-3414
Publisher :
Informa UK Ltd
Volume :
3
Issue :
1
Pages :
32 - 55
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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