Difference Matters

Embodiment of and Discourse on Difference at an Urban Public High School

Bibliographic Data

ID2280533
AuthorsAnita Chikkatur (0000-0001-5677-4310, Carleton College, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume43
Issue1
Pages82-100
Publication date2012-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropology & Education Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0161-7761 • E-ISSN: 1548-1492
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-1492.2011.01158.x
OpenAlexW1837501647
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited29

This article examines how students and teachers at an urban public high school embodied and understood various social categories of difference. Although ascriptions and experiences of racial and gender identities varied, these identities were often viewed as biological in origin and static in nature. The complexities and contradictions evident in the everyday conversations about difference at the school might serve as effective starting points for discussions about the social construction of difference. [race and gender, everyday discourse about difference, high school, race as a biological category

Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Everyday life · Significant difference · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology

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