Confronting White Supremacist Discipline During Neoliberal Turnaround Reform

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 21
  In Roundtable Session: Leading in an Time of Neoliberalism and Resurgent White Supremacy

Abstract

This paper describes how the transformative leadership framework (Anello, Hernandez, & Khadem, 2014; Shields, 2018) can move beyond its relative silence on whiteness to explore the CRT and CWS leadership praxis (Stovall, 2004). It builds on previous studies that describe white principals who have made strategic choices to engage racist discourses (Swanson & Welton, 2018; Theoharis & Haddix, 2011), and the entanglements of white identity attending those commitments (Green & Dantley, 2013; Patton & Bondi, 2015). Three questions guided the study. First, how did whiteness shape existing structures and practices for dealing with student behavior? Second, how did whiteness shape the reform process? And third, how did a white principal employ transformative leadership principles to navigate the reform process?

Author

• Josh Bornstein, Fairleigh Dickinson University