Research Research OverviewPublicationsLab for Social ResearchUndergraduate Research OpportunitiesAffiliated Research CentersAppointing Postdoctoral Scholars and VisitorsOther Stanford Research Resources Main content start Whitewashing Academic Mediocrity 2015 Author(s) Tomás R. Jiménez Publisher Contexts Read the publication Read more about whites and the racial achievement gap In an outlier city in California, whiteness has become the new code for academic mediocrity and laziness.