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    "pk": 63464,
    "title": "Nice to Whom?: How Midwestern Niceness Undermines Educational Equity",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "While U.S. schools grapple with persistent racial inequities, we argue that niceness, a socioemotional way of being that privileges whiteness, regularly impedes “equity” and “diversity” efforts in K-12 and teacher education settings. In the Midwest, niceness is uniquely rooted in a historical “obsession with public civility” (Cayton & Gray, 2002) that advances whiteness through a “demure white supremacy” (Cleveland, 2021), particularly in education. Here, the authors theorize Midwestern educational niceness, a regionally produced and enacted phenomenon “nicely” instantiated by the predominantly overwhelmingly white, Midwestern teacher workforce that actually stymies equity efforts. The authors conceptualize the ways whiteness through niceness works through a number of other phenomena including color evasiveness (Annamma et al., 2017; Bonilla-Silva, 2003), white fragility (DiAngelo, 2018), and emotionalities of whiteness (Matias, 2016). Countering the insidiousness of Midwestern educational niceness will require a recognition that this regional form of niceness and equity are incommensurate.",
    "language": "en",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "niceness, whiteness, equity, K-12 education, teacher education"
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    "section": "Articles",
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            "first_name": "Riley",
            "middle_name": "D",
            "last_name": "Drake",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The University of Wisconsin-Stout",
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        {
            "first_name": "Gabriel",
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            "last_name": "Rodriguez",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Iowa State University",
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    "date_submitted": "2021-05-05T18:00:01Z",
    "date_accepted": "2021-05-05T18:00:01Z",
    "date_published": "2023-03-12T22:31:19Z",
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