"This collection extends a line of critique from Castagno's book, Educated in Whiteness: white teachers' default position of 'being nice' and its problematic relationship with larger inequities in education and society. Castagno and her contributors explore how the frame of niceness is the primary one through which teachers problematically engage diversity and maintain ideological commitments to colorblindness, equality, and politeness"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction: Mapping the contours of niceness in education / Angelina E. Castagno -- On average, what's the mean of nice school interactions? / Frederick W. Gooding Jr. -- "It's not that easy!" : foundations of niceness in enacting multicultural and social justice education / Jia-Hui Stefanie Wong -- Being nice to the elephant in the (class)room : whiteness in new Latino diaspora Nebraska / Jessica Sierk -- Niceness in special education : an ethnographic case study of benevolence, goodness, and paternalism at Colina Cedro Charter High School / Sylvia Mac -- Nice work : young white women, near enemies, and teaching inside the magic circle / Sally Campbell Galman -- The perfect storm of whiteness, middle-classness, and cis-femaleness in school contexts / Joseph C. Wegwert and Aidan/Amanda J. Charles -- Evaluating niceness : how anonymous student feedback forms promote gendered and flawed value systems in academic labor / Kristine T. Weatherston -- The role of niceness in silencing racially minoritized faculty / Cynthia Diana Villarreal, Romn Liera, and Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux -- The self-contained scholar : racialized burdens of being nice in higher education / Colin Ben, Amber Poleviyuma, Jeremiah Chin, Alexus Richmond, Megan Tom, and Sarah Abuwandi -- Performative niceness and student erasure : historical implications / Nicholas Bustamante and Jessica Solyom -- Community resistance to in-school inequities : disrupting niceness in out-of-school spaces / Katie A. Lazdowski -- "I want to celebrate that" : how niceness in school administrators' talk elides discussions of racialized school discipline in an urban school district / Marguerite Anne Fillion Wilson and Denise Gray Yull -- "It's better now" : how Midwest niceness shapes social justice education / Bailey B. Smolarek and Giselle Martinez Negrette -- Schooling, structural niceness, and not-nice white girls / Sabina Vaught and Deirdre Judge -- "She's such a nasty woman" : nice and nasty as gendered tropes / Frances J. Riemer.