Flipping the Script

Analyzing Youth Talk about Race and Racism

Bibliographic Data

ID2280384
AuthorsRosemarie A Roberts, Rosemarie Roberts (Department for Work and Pensions, corresponding author), Lee Anne Bell (Department for Work and Pensions, corresponding author), Brett Murphy (0000-0001-7784-3434), Brett Gardiner Murphy (0000-0001-9249-9168, Department for Work and Pensions, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume39
Issue3
Pages334-354
Publication date2008-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropology & Education Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0161-7761 • E-ISSN: 1548-1492
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-1492.2008.00025.x
OpenAlexW2102856259
LanguageEN
Citations received32
References cited29

In this article, we examine how youth in one urban high school talked about race and racism while participating in a curriculum that introduced the analytic lens of story types (stock stories, concealed stories, resistance stories, and counterstories) to look at race and racism and engage these issues through storytelling and the arts. We draw on data from observations and focus group interviews to examine student-initiated themes and conversation as the curriculum unfolded. In particular, we look at the use of language, particularly racialized jokes and name calling, to consider how such talk functions to create social and rhetorical spaces where youth of color can express and critically analyze the particularities of their lived experiences of race and racism in a contemporary "color-blind" context that asserts race no longer matters. [urban education, youth development, racism, resistance

Anti-racism · Conversation · Linguistics · Narrative · Racism · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Storytelling · Critical Race Theory in Education · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism

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