Review of Whiteness in the Ivory Tower: Why Don't We Notice the White Students Sitting Together in the Quad? by Nolan Cabrera
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Elsie Szecsy, Arizona State University
Elsie Szecsy is emerita research professional at Arizona State University, where her research interests were on intersections among teaching, learning, and leadership, with institutional, organizational, and instructional arrangements in linguistically and culturally diverse education settings. She was involved in several documentation research projects in metro New York and metro Phoenix, Arizona, that aimed to improve Latino representation among high school and college graduates and among faculty and administrators in K-12 and higher education. Her research interests have since expanded to include humanities-based approaches to discover racial and other injustices in schools and other educational settings. Elsie holds an Ed.D. in educational administration from Teachers College, Columbia University.
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[Book reviewed] Cabrera, N. L. (2024). Whiteness in the ivory tower: Why don’t we notice the white students sitting together in the quad? Teachers College Press.
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