“A lot of times in whiteness literature, we talk about the refusal to pathologize whiteness, and this is a case,” Battey explained. “For African Americans, for Native Americans, for Latinos in mathematics, we attribute something internally to the child or internally to the culture that's making them achieve lower. We don’t do that for white students … producing some deficit idea about who whites are.”
This is from Birdwatchers link. I can remember back when people from Arkansas were considered backwards hillbillies, by most of the nation, no matter how educated they were. Most people here did not get upset about it. miles
