Racing Discourses: Constructions and Negotiations Students Make About Race

<p>This dissertation presents a longitudinal ethnographic study about race and how college students construct and negotiate its meaning. The study utilizes multiple qualitative methods such as participant observation, unstructured interviews and focus groups. Rather than race identity or racism, the discourses of race and how they are produced or adopted by students on a university campus are central to this work. Drawing from Critical Race Theory, Critical Whiteness Studies, and other race theories, I present qualitative analyses about race, which demonstrate how racism is cloaked and persists in colorblind discourse and the race talk of educated young people. This work illuminates how colorblind discourses function for different racial groups of people, exposes the mechanics of race talk, and challenges the stasis of current racial/multicultural education. I conclude with implications for further research and recommendations for educators to be more vigilant and productive in anti-racist and justice education for all students.</p>

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Cultural Foundations of Education

Year

2012

Author dc:creator

• Buckley, Paul M.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Sari K. Biklen

• colorblindness
• critical race theory
• discourse
• multicultural education
• racism
• whiteness
• Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://surface.syr.edu/cfe_etd/51

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:surface.syr.edu:cfe_etd-1053