Carmen M. White, Ph.D

Anthropology

Anspach Hall 139
(989) 774-3410
white1cm@cmich.edu
 
 

Education

Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis, 1997
M.A., Washington University, St. Louis, 1991
B.A., Washington University, St. Louis, 1987
 
 

Teaching Expertise

Cultural Anthropology
Educational Anthropology
Minority Education                                                      Comparative Education                                                 Oceanic Societies
 
 

Research Interests

Educational Anthropology
Comparative Education
Educational Disparities in Plural Societies
Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Class
Comparative Inequality
Minority-Majority Group Relations
Political Anthropology
African Diaspora
Urban Anthropology
Post-colonial
Colonialism and Neo-colonialism
 
 

Selected Publications

Carmen M. White. 2007. "Schooling in Fiji" in Going to School in Oceania (The Global School Room book series). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press Pp. 79-132.

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.  2006.  "'Mythical Realities':  College Students Construction of the South Pacific."  College Student Journal 41 (1): 99-111.

Carmen M. White. 2007.  "Living in Zion:  Rastafarian Repatriates in Ghana, West Africa."  Journal of Black Studies 37 (5): 677-709.

Carmen M. White.  2006.  "Moving Up the Ranks:  Chiefly Status, Prestige and Schooling in Colonial Fiji."  History of Education Quarterly 46(4): 313-336.

Carmen M. White.  2006.  "Sun, Sea, Sand and Smiles:  Friendly Fijians in Fiji Tourism."  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(1):27-39.

Carmen M. White.  2002.  "Language, Authenticity and Education:  Indigenous Fijian Students and Language Use in the School."  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. 

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