Race talk and school equity in local print media

The Discursive Flexibility of Whiteness and the Promise of Race-Conscious Talk

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ID2929174
AuthorsSofia A Villena (0000-0002-9812-3695, Cornell University, corresponding author), Sophia L Ángele (0000-0003-1407-2753, University of North Carolina at Greensboro), SOPHIA L ÁNGELES
Year2013
Volume34
Issue4
Pages510-530
Publication date2013-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596306.2013.822626
OpenAlexW1975353054
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited25

This article examines how a progressive, rural/small city community in the USA wrestles with race, racism, and school equity in the public arena of print media. It inquires into the tensions, limitations, and possibilities for race-conscious discourse in the face of both explicit racist hate speech and benevolent liberal race talk. Based on ethnographic and cultural discourse analyses of local print media, this article draws from critical race and whiteness theories to examine how racist hate speech, occurring in a non-education context of a police-related tragedy, and benevolent liberal race talk on school equity issues mutually reinforce the logic of white racial dominance. It also locates the possibilities of race-conscious talk as generative speech that demands a response

Racism · Sociology · Communication in Education and Healthcare · Critical Race Theory in Education · Education Discipline and Inequality · Gender Studies

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