- Research question: The article contributes to the understanding of racial formation by examining a magnet program for gifted students at an urban high school in California as a racial project. How does the gifted program produce a notion of whiteness and synonymous with giftedness?
- White students were overrepresented in the gifted program.
- Latinos and Asians were slightly underrepresented and Blacks were greatly underrepresented.
- The research found practices that lead to exclusionary access to the gifted program.
- Study reveals process by which a desegregation program creates a discourse that equates whiteness with giftedness.
- School personnel construct a discourse of gifted students as in need of protection.
- There is limited contact between the magnet and non-magnet students.
- Students in and outside of the program, White and non-White, had varied responses to the discourse of whiteness as giftedness.