White, Carmen
More about Carmen White
Publications & Presentations
Book Chapters:
Carmen M. White. 2007. "Schooling in Fiji." In Going to School in Oceania (The Global School Room book series) eds. C. Campbell and G. Sherrington. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press Pp. 79-132.
Refereed/Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
Carmen M. White. 2015. “Chiefs, Moral Imperatives, and the Specter of Class in Fiji.” Journal of Anthropological Research 71 (2): 169-194.
Carmen M. White. 2015. “Rurality, Urbanity, Indigeneity, and Schooling in Fiji.” International Education 44 (2): 69-85.
Carmen M. White. 2014. “Deficit Thinking Redux: Cultural Deficit Discourse and an Urban Community and School in Fiji.” Social Identities 20 (2-3): 155-170.
Carmen M. White. 2013. “Dynamics of Academic Teasing and Academic Peer Pressure in a Fiji Secondary School. European Journal of Social Sciences 38 (3): 321-336.
Carmen M. White. 2013. “Subjective Difference: Institutional Culture and the Assessment of Fijian Female Academic Achievement.” Ethnography and Education 8 (1): 31-45.
Carmen M. White. 2010. “Rastafarian Repatriates and the Negotiation of Place in Ghana” Ethnology 49(4): 303-320.
Carmen M. White. 2007. "Living in Zion: Rastafarian Repatriates in Ghana, West Africa." Journal of Black Studies 37 (5): 677-709.
Carmen M. White. 2007. "More Authentic Than Thou: Authenticity and Othering in Fiji Tourism Discourse." Tourist Studies 7(1): 25-49.
Carmen M. White and Mensah Adinkrah. 2007. "'Mythical Realities': College Students Construction of the South Pacific." College Student Journal 41 (1):99-111.
Carmen M. White. 2006. "Moving Up the Ranks: Chiefly Status, Prestige and Schooling in Colonial Fiji." History of Education Quarterly 46(4): 532-570.
Carmen
M. White. 2005. "Tourism as an Ethnic Landscape and the Landscape of
Ethnic Tourism: The Case of Fiji," Race, Gender and Class: An Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Journal. 12(3-4): 155-175.
Carmen M. White. 2005. "Fijian Males at the Crossroads of Gender and Ethnicity in a Fiji Secondary School." Ethnology 44(4): 313-336.
Carmen M. White. 2003. "Historicizing Educational Disparity: Colonial Policy and Fijian Educational Attainment." History of Education 32(4):345-365.
Carmen
M. White. 2003. "To Share is to Care: The Dynamics of Academic Sharing
in Peer Groups in a South Pacific Island School." International Education 32(2):27-39.
Carmen M. White. 2002. "Language, Authenticity and Identity: Indigenous Fijian Students and Language Use in the Schools." Language, Culture and Curriculum 15(1):16-29.
Carmen
M. White. 2002. "Minority Status as a Contested Terrain: Defining the
Parameters of Subordinate Status in Post-independent Fiji Discourse." Social Identities 8(1):11-43.
Carmen M. White. 2001. "Affirmative Action and Education in Fiji: Legitimation, Contestation, and Colonial Discourse." Harvard Educational Review 71(2): 240-268.
Carmen
M. White. 2001. "Between Academic Theory and Folk Wisdom: Local
Discourse on Differential Educational Attainment in Fiji." Comparative Education Review 45(3): 303-333.
Carmen
M. White. 2001. "Legitimation and Contestation of Affirmative Action
Policies in Fiji: The Invocation of Colonial Discourse." International Journal of Educational Policy, Research and Practice 2(1): 1-26.
Carmen M. White. 1989. "As Soon As They Fire One Of Us, They Hire One O' Them': Ethnic Succession in A St. Louis Sweatshop." City and Society 3(2):132-141.
Education
Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis, 1997
M.A., Washington University, St. Louis, 1991
B.A., Washington University, St. Louis, 1987
Research Interests
Educational Anthropology
Comparative Inequality
Comparative Education
Political Anthropology
Colonialism and Neo-colonialism
Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Class
African Diaspora
Oceanic Societies