Waiting for Superman' to save black people
Racial Representation and the Official Antiracism of Neoliberal School Reform
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2936353 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael J Dumas (New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 531-547 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01596306.2013.822621 |
| OpenAlex | W2068213396 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 11 |
The author argues that the documentary, Waiting for Superman, effectively employs bodies and texts in ways that reproduce hegemonic constructions of race, and more specifically, offers an image and imagination of black engagement in education that reinforces neoliberal-multicultural narratives about black disinterest in, and responsibility for their own lack of educational attainment. Black subjects are understood as sympathetic primarily because, and only to the extent that they accept individual ‘responsibility’ and move toward neoliberal school ‘choices’ as a corrective for their own past cultural and educational shortcomings. The author also uses his analysis to encourage a (re-)commitment to critical cultural analysis of racial signification in educational policy discourse
Art history · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Superman · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Public Administration
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Segregation, Diversity, and Pathology
The Importance of Being “Woke”
Beyond the Parameters of “Choice”
The Money Chase
Impacting Resilience of Black Students Through Critically Conscious Institutional Leadership and Policy
Educators as decolonial intellectuals
The right kind of leader”
Quantification and the homogeneous representation of urban students in school choice research and politics
Marketing a culture of achievement to Black and Brown students
Reading Between the Lines
Social Construction Is Racial Construction
It’s Going to Go in One Ear and Out the Other”
Continued Disparate Discipline
We’ve Been Had
We Do Not Want to Give Up Our School”
Accountability Battle
How Do Socioeconomic Differences Among Low-Income and Racially Minoritized Students Shape Their Engagement and Access in School Choice Systems
Code Switching and Political Strategy
Waiting for Superman' to save black people
Elite schooling in the city
Beautiful minds and unruly bodies
The Cultural Studies Reader
Racial Formation in the United States
Racial Formation in the United States
Black Sexual Politics
The Threat of Race
Theory and educational research
Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action
Waiting for Superman' to save black people
Colorblind Racism and Institutional Actors' Explanations of Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Represent and destroy
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,85 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |