Recognizing the monolithic role that neoliberalism has occupied in the United States (US) in the second half of the twentieth century (Harvey 2005) and building on the notions of racial formation and racial projects posited by Omi and Winant (2014), Jeong-eun Rhee (2013) conceptualizes what she calls the “neoliberal racial project” (or the “NRP”). While Rhee (2013) applies the idea of the NRP to understandings of Asian-American identity in the US, this article first seeks to broaden the application of the NRP to include Whiteness. After establishing how the NRP functions to reinforce notions of Whiteness, I argue that independent schools—a subset of private schools in the US—function as fundamentally neoliberal organizations and, as such, perpetuate the ongoing recreation of Whiteness. This is achieved, in particular, through an explicitly market-based approach to educational choice in both language and action. An analysis of a recent report conducted by the National Association of Independent Schools serves as evidence for this claim. The article concludes with some initial suggestions of strategies schools might adopt to combat their tendency to reify Whiteness in those spaces.

认识新自由主义在二十世纪后半叶（美国，Harvey，2005年）在美国（美国）中所扮演的整体角色，并以近江和温南（2014年）提出的种族形成和种族计划的概念为基础，郑恩恩Rhee（2013）将她所谓的“新种族计划”（或“ NRP”）概念化。尽管Rhee（2013）将NRP的概念应用到对美国亚裔美国人身份的理解中，但本文首先试图扩大NRP的应用范围，以包括“白度”。在确定NRP如何增强白度的概念后，我认为独立学校（美国私立学校的子集）从根本上充当了新自由主义组织，因此使正在进行的白度复兴成为永久性的。尤其是可以做到这一点 通过一种明确的基于市场的方法来进行语言和行动方面的教育选择。对美国独立学校协会的最新报告进行的分析证明了这一主张。文章最后提出了一些初步的建议，建议学校采取一些策略来对抗他们在这些空间中实现白化的倾向。