Color Conscious, Cultural Blindness

Suburban School Districts and Demographic Change

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9729232
AutoresAnjalé D Welton (0000-0002-7588-6008, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, IL, USA, autor correspondente), Sarah Diem (0000-0003-0798-5220, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA), Jennifer Jellison Holme (0000-0001-8973-899X, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA)
Ano2015
Volume47
Fascículo6
Páginas695-722
Data de publicação2015-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEducation and Urban Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0013-1245 • E-ISSN: 1552-3535
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0013124513510734
OpenAlexW1998323241
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas24
Referências citadas32

Suburban school districts have undergone significant demographic shifts over the past several decades. However, limited research exists that explores how suburban district leaders are responding to such changes, and what factors may shape their responses. To better understand how districts within these communities are responding to suburban diversification, we conducted a qualitative case study of a large and rapidly changing suburban district. We interviewed top-level district administrators, principals, and teachers at three case study schools that were undergoing particularly rapid demographic shifts. We found that instead of directly addressing issues of race in the district, the district’s response was colorblind in design: It was racially conscious of changes in student demographics, but its practices to address these changes were race-neutral. Findings suggest that districts must assert a framework for responding to issues of race in the face of demographic change

Demographics · Diversification (marketing strategy · Geography · Pedagogy · Qualitative research · Race (biology · Racial composition · School district · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Demography · Educational Environments and Student Outcomes · Gender Studies · Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies