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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Race and Racism"”.
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"Courageous conversations": Rural South Georgia Teachers Reflecting on the Role of Race and Racism in the Education of Rural South Georgia Students
… the achievement gap between White students and non-White students, which had not previously been a factor in determining school success for federal and state funding. However, acknowledging the gap is not enough. Schools must move beyond acknowledging the gap to developing strategies to …
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Blackness in a predominantly white academe : a case of the University of Cape Town's Faculty of Health Sciences
… how it is circumscribed by notions of race (and racism). Given the centrality of race and thus, whiteness, a select few members of the white academic staff were included as a 'control' group. The study employed Critical Race Theory (CRT) as its overarching theoretical lens. Research …
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Morally Fraught Identities: How Multiracial Individuals Navigate Race and Whiteness
Multiracial identities and experiences cannot be fully understood through monoracial categories, yet multiracial individuals must contend with monoracial structures. Through 55 in-depth interviews and photo elicitation with multiracial young adults (18-24) in the Midwest, I examine how multiracial …
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Teacher Education For Racial Knowledge: Institutional And Pedagogical Challenges For Developing Racial Knowledge
… of teacher educators (TEs) who teach about race and racism. Through interviews, focus groups, and artifacts from teaching, TEs reflected on their teaching goals, pedagogical practice, and successes and challenges in teaching for racial knowledge. Three key findings emerged. First, I examined …
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Colonialidade, racismo e dinâmica universitária no contexto da sociedade brasileira: análises a partir de uma perspectiva antirracista
… in Brazil from an antiracist, counter-colonial, and decolonial perspective. Grounded in bibliographic sources, its overall objective is to critically grasp the following issues and themes: the coloniality of power, knowledge, and Being, racism, and the Brazilian university. Here, race and racism …
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HOPE VI: A Racial Project for a Colorblind Society
… Public Housing: A Report to the Congress and the Secretary of housing and Urban Development" and the United States Housing Act of 1937 as it was amended by the "Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998." I plan to demonstrate how removing race and racism from the national …
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African American Family, Culture, and Racial Identity in College Choice
… students’ families, teachers, counselors, and peers influence their decision making. It also highlights the barriers these students may face due to lack of finances, social capital, information, and preparedness. Problem Statement: However, research often overlooks aspects of the African …
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Learning Race and *Class: Chinese Americans in Multiracial Bridgeport
… social stratum negotiate the ideological and material impacts of race and racism in Bridgeport, a multiracial working class immigrant community adjacent to Chicago's Chinatown. Specifically, I observe that Chinese Americans in Bridgeport are subjected to various and even contradictory …
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No such thing as neutral: An exploration of antiracist teacher preparation
… educators to effectively teach culturally and linguistically diverse students. Scholarship on multicultural education emerged in the 1980s, followed by culturally responsive and culturally relevant pedagogy in the early 1990s. In the late 1990s, the social justice education movement evolved …
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Interracial Couples' Experience of Leisure: A Social Construction of a Racialized Other
… social isolation is due to issues related to race and racism. Many of the couples' family members withdrew from them as a result of their interracial relationship. Also, the couples experienced low levels of comfort when participating in some leisure activities while in public spaces. There …
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Plugging Into Movement Work: White Racial Justice Action in the Era of Colorblind Racism
<p>This qualitative study explored the practices and consciousness of eight white identified participants, born 1970 or later, who are actively engaged in racial justice action. Although the field of critical whiteness studies has expanded markedly over the past couple of decades, little has been …
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Is That Racist? One White Family Interrogating Whiteness and Constructing Antiracist Curriculum
Despite attempts by white teachers and families to avoid talk about race (Apfelbaum, Paulker, Ambady, Sommers, & Norton, 2008; Bartoli, Michael, Bentley Edwards, Stevenson, Shor, & McClain, 2016; Boutte, López-Robertson, & Powers Costello, 2011; Lesane-Brown, Brown, Tanner-Smith, & Bruce, 2010; …
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Blinded by the White: Foregrounding Race in a Language and Literacy Course for Preservice Teachers
… through inequitable instructional, curricular, and assessment school practices (Ladson-Billings, 2009). Achievement statistics also show that schools fail to serve African American students more than any other group (Gay, 2010). Colleges of education must take action. Addressing this problem, …
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Does anyone here speak tashelhait? Perspectives on environment, identity and social change in south Morocco
… in Morocco’s desert provinces. “Blackness” and all of its corresponding complexity is not generally associated with the countries and cultures of North Africa in either academic or popular discourse. Black Moroccan communities challenge us to expand our understanding of the Middle East and …
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Race: Racial Discourses, Nationalism and Identity in Nineteenth Century Ireland
<p>The 19th century witnessed the rise of race and racism as a dominant framework of worldwide identity politics. These politics shaped the various social hierarchies and nationalist contexts across Europe and the world. Racial constructs adopted cultural, economic, and political components and did …
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Critical perspectives in the construction and contextualisation of minoritised students in UK Higher Education
… for institutions to enact Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity initiatives. This tends to place emphasis on the minoritised home student experience and their outcomes, and neglects the minoritised international student experience. Instead, the institutional experiences of international students …
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Policing the boundaries of whiteness : monsters made in the USA
… This dissertation explores institutionalized racism in American culture that signifies through the Reconstruction era Klansman, the folklore of the Night Doctor, and what I've dubbed the White Monstrous Feminine. My analyses of these monsters depends upon contextual explorations wherein the …
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Yall Aint Heard Us? Black Identity and Belonging in Appalachian Virginia
… often portrayed through dominant narratives as a raceless region, yet it has long been home to black communities whose histories, experiences, and existences remain overlooked. This research explores black identity, belonging, and lived experience in Appalachian Virginia, a space frequently …
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OBAMA'S PRESIDENTIAL (MIXED) RACE: FRAMING AND IDEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BLOGS AND NEWS
… brought a heightened awareness to the role of race and produced speculation about the idealized notion of the achievement of a post-racial United States. This dissertation examined mediated conversations on mixed race identity in response to some of the significant events in the Obama campaign …
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The Brotherhood of Blackness: A Phenomenological Investigation Into the Lived Experiences of African American Male High School Graduates in a Northern California City
… are typically subjected to unbelievable barriers and negative trends, which include institutional racism, discrimination, multigenerational poverty, lack of education, chronic unemployment, and fatherlessness. These findings are rooted within historical contexts that paint a picture of American …
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