"A White Issue": Examining Racial Equity Efforts in a Predominantly White Seattle High School

Author

Rachel W. Berner-Hays, Scripps CollegeFollow

Graduation Year

2017

Document Type

Campus Only Senior Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

Sociology

Reader 1

Roberta Espinoza

Reader 2

Amy Marcus-Newhall

Reader 3

Erich Steinman

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Abstract

My project explores the ways in which racial equity is addressed in a predominantly white school, through a study of Washfield High School in Seattle, WA. Through semi-structured interviews with three administrators, six teachers and two alumni, I examine themes including the prominence of blackness, segregation, curricular strategies, differential expectations across races, campus efforts and leadership. Through this study, I focus on the role that predominantly white schools have in increasing racial equity in education.

Recommended Citation

Berner-Hays, Rachel W., ""A White Issue": Examining Racial Equity Efforts in a Predominantly White Seattle High School" (2017). Scripps Senior Theses. 1000.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1000