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Same, Same but Different: A Critical Post-Intentional Phenomenology on the Lived Experiences with Whiteness of White International Graduate Students from Europe in the United States

Dengg, Michaela Maria
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9885-3284
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1710258671774337

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2024, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Educational Studies.
This post-intentional phenomenological study grounded in Critical Whiteness Studies explored the lived experiences with whiteness, the post-intentional phenomenon, of white international graduate students from Europe. The study was guided by an overarching research question with two sub-questions. Data collection included three separate semi-structured interviews with six participants, journal entries, as well as researcher conversations, and data analysis featured thematic coding through NVivo. The first subquestion explored how the U.S. higher education setting shapes white European international students’ understanding of whiteness. This line of inquiry found an overarching theme of participants’ development from colorblindness to more racial awareness by having to grapple with their own white racial identity and constructions of race and racism in and outside the United States. The second subquestion explored how white European international students enact and benefit from whiteness in the United States. This line of inquiry highlighted white privilege in the form of European privilege. Together, these two lines of inquiry gear at the overarching research question of the lived experiences with whiteness of white European international graduate students in the United States. Overall, these inquires culminated in reflections on the participants’ understandings of nationality versus race and a sense of (not) belonging in the U.S. higher education setting.
Tatiana Suspitsyna (Advisor)
Marc Johnston-Guerrero (Committee Member)
Kristen Mills (Committee Member)
210 p.
Higher Education; Higher Education Administration
International higher education, International Students, Critical Whiteness Studies, whiteness, Post-Intentional Phenomenology

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  • Dengg, M. M. (2024). Same, Same but Different: A Critical Post-Intentional Phenomenology on the Lived Experiences with Whiteness of White International Graduate Students from Europe in the United States [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1710258671774337

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Dengg, Michaela. Same, Same but Different: A Critical Post-Intentional Phenomenology on the Lived Experiences with Whiteness of White International Graduate Students from Europe in the United States . 2024. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1710258671774337.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Dengg, Michaela. "Same, Same but Different: A Critical Post-Intentional Phenomenology on the Lived Experiences with Whiteness of White International Graduate Students from Europe in the United States ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1710258671774337

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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