Being White in Black Spaces: Teaching and Learning at a Predominately Black Institution

Abstract

AbstractThis paper serves as a beginning conversation of how two White males perspectives’ were shaped and how those perspectives evolved while attending and teaching at a Predominately Black Institution (PBI). Their initial understandings of Whiteness are introduced. This is an ethnographic study that utilized personal narratives from a college professor and a doctoral student as they explore Whiteness at a PBI.