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Secret Agent Insiders to White People

Disdaining, Denying, and Reconciling Whiteness

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But Don’t Call Me White

Part of the book series: Breakthroughs in the Sociology of Education ((CIEDV,volume 2))

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I feel like I’m the secret agent insider to White people because my family’s White. But I don’t feel like I’m a White person.

The excerpt below is a conversation from the Oakland group interview that begins to illuminate the complexity of Whiteness in relation to these women’s lives.

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Bettez, S.C. (2012). Secret Agent Insiders to White People. In: Bettez, S.C. (eds) But Don’t Call Me White. Breakthroughs in the Sociology of Education, vol 2. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-693-9_7

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