Despite earning the highest grade point average (GPA) in her graduating class at the recently integrated Cleveland High School (CHS) in Cleveland, Mississippi, Ms. Jasmine Shepard, an African-American female, was named “co-valedictorian” with Ms. Heather Bouse, a White female, who had a lower GPA. Utilizing Derrick Bell’s rules of racial standing theory and Cheryl Harris’ analytical construct whiteness as property, this article examines Ms. Shepard’s lawsuit against the Cleveland School District. In addition to explaining how White flight was deployed as a policy distraction to justify the inequitable treatment of Ms. Jasmine Shepard, this article posits that the specter of Ms. Shepard becoming Cleveland High School’s first Black valedictorian triggered area Whites’ fear of losing the property value of their whiteness.

尽管在密西西比州克利夫兰市最近整合的克利夫兰高中（CHS）的毕业班上获得了最高平均绩点（GPA），但一名非洲裔美国女性的茉莉·谢泼德女士却被任命为“联合valedictorian”。 Heather Bouse，白人女性，GPA较低。本文利用德里克·贝尔（Derrick Bell）的种族地位理论规则和谢丽尔·哈里斯（Cheryl Harris）的分析性建筑白度作为财产，考察了谢泼德女士针对克利夫兰学区的诉讼。除了解释如何将白人逃亡作为一种政策分散注意力以证明对茉莉·谢泼德女士的不公正待遇的合理性外，本文还提出，谢泼德女士的幽灵成为克利夫兰高中的第一位黑人告别者，引发了白人对失去财产的恐惧。白度的价值。