So you’re thinking that instead of referring to her by her name two students relegate her to Blanket White Entity, while pointing out that she either received preferential treatment or her biological Caucasian advantage kicked in and pushed her performance up a level, but the studfents have not objectified or targeted her in a racial manner?
Sub-text does not negate, minimize or obliterate the laser focus of race in their approach.
Perhaps you’re suggesting (but not saying) that they do not mean to harm her in any way, and in venting are doing so in a way which is race-based but also helps them to let off steam at their discomfort with their own standing in the class. Venting in a way which denies her person-hood and individuality, and which determines her to be “other” and outside of the group.
If this scenario were only gender-based, wouldn’t it be easy to see that the culture which may be brewing in the classroom potentially places the young girl outside of the protections of the group, also?