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| author | Rhianna Garrett |
| author_facet | Rhianna Garrett Rhianna Garrett |
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| contents | The architecture of whiteness Rhianna Garrett Area Abstract On 27 January 2025, I submitted my doctoral thesis titled ‘The architecture of whiteness: How institutional whiteness shapes academic careers in the UK’, and shared this milestone on X (formally Twitter). However, given the far‐right political landscape of the platform, the post became a representative for the very thing I was hoping to challenge—the normalcy of whiteness. In this paper, I define the architecture of whiteness as the metaphorical notion that whiteness is a structure feature of the UK university space—both physically and metaphorically—and focuses institutional investigations on ‘race’ and racism on spatial features that have been built into the walls of the academy. I argue that now more than ever, whiteness must be articulated as more than a phenotype, more than an imagination, more than a system, but as an architecture, particularly in the context of university organisations built by bricks of whiteness. 10.1111/area.70039 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| doi_str_mv | 10.1111/area.70039 |
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| institution | Wiley Open Access |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | The architecture of whiteness Rhianna Garrett Area The architecture of whiteness Rhianna Garrett Area Abstract On 27 January 2025, I submitted my doctoral thesis titled ‘The architecture of whiteness: How institutional whiteness shapes academic careers in the UK’, and shared this milestone on X (formally Twitter). However, given the far‐right political landscape of the platform, the post became a representative for the very thing I was hoping to challenge—the normalcy of whiteness. In this paper, I define the architecture of whiteness as the metaphorical notion that whiteness is a structure feature of the UK university space—both physically and metaphorically—and focuses institutional investigations on ‘race’ and racism on spatial features that have been built into the walls of the academy. I argue that now more than ever, whiteness must be articulated as more than a phenotype, more than an imagination, more than a system, but as an architecture, particularly in the context of university organisations built by bricks of whiteness. 10.1111/area.70039 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| title | The architecture of whiteness |
| topic | Area |
| url | https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/area.70039 |