THIS IS WHAT PASSES FOR SCHOLARSHIP IN EDUCATION RESEARCH STUDY: Whiteboards are racist because ‘they collaborate with white organizational culture’
“Whiteboards display written information for public consumption; they draw attention to themselves and in this case support the centering of an abstract representation and the person standing next to it, presenting,” the authors argue in the study. “They collaborate with white organizational culture, where ideas and experiences gain value (become more central) when written down.”
According to this argument, when students use a whiteboard to display work, they are drawing attention to themselves that may portray characteristics of “whiteness.”