I'm a kid from the Bronx
A reflection on the enduring contributions of Willis's cultural production perspective in Learning to Labour
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2402616 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathleen Nolan (0000-0001-6587-6757, Princeton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 464-478 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1466138118780869 |
| OpenAlex | W2807506091 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 22 |
In this essay, the author discusses the enduring significance of Paul Willis's theorizations of cultural production and social reproduction as delineated in his classic work, Learning to Labour (1977). She reflects on the ways Willis's theory informs her experiences as a high school teacher and, later, as an ethnographer examining school policing in the Bronx. The author uses data on her research participants' experiences of schooling, the police, and the labour market within the context of neoliberal capitalism, ghettoization, and the intensified use of police force to show how a cultural production lens can provide important insights into the collective and spatialized experience of racial and class oppression. Further, the author argues that despite intensified repression in schools attended by poor and working class students of colour in US ghettoized areas, the transformative impulses within non-conformity signal a cogent social critique and can become a springboard for political action
Capitalism · Capitalist mode of production · Context (archaeology · Ethnography · Neoliberalism (international relations · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Law · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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Mapping Corporate Education Reform
Hidden Markets
Police in the Hallways
Learning to Labour
The New Political Economy of Urban Education
The Rise of Respectability Politics
Policing the Crisis
Youth Resistance Research and Theories of Change
Racial Formation in the United States
Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education
The Condemnation of Blackness
Charter Management Organizations and the Regulated Environment
The New Jim Crow
Dispositions toward (Collective) Struggle and Educational Resilience in the Inner City
Cultural production is different from cultural reproduction is different from social reproduction is different from reproduction
Brief History of Neoliberalism
The Paradox of Success at a No-Excuses School
The Cultural Organizing of Youth Ethnographers
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |