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Disrupting White Supremacy and Anti-Black Racism in Educational Organizations

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ID9733739
AuthorsJ B Diamond (0000-0001-7486-4862, Brown University, Providence, RI, corresponding author), Louis M Gomez (0009-0004-2841-8721, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA)
Year2023
Publication date2023-03-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Researcher (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X
PublisherAmerican Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3102/0013189x231161054
OpenAlexW4361305494
LanguageEN
Citations received47
References cited71

White supremacy and anti-Black racism are deeply embedded in educational organizations and disrupting them is key to creating more racially just schools. This essay details how the regular practice of organizational routines reproduces racial domination and subordination. We argue that combining critical perspectives on race with organizational improvement approaches can help disrupt this reproductive process. More specifically, educators can engage in critical reflection and action to interrupt, deconstruct, and redesign organizational routines in ways that challenge and hopefully undermine white supremacy and anti-Black racism in schools. We highlight how this approach could help create more racially just educational contexts

Critical race theory · Political science · Public relations · Race (biology · Racism · Sociology · Subordination (linguistics · White (mutation · White supremacy · Critical Race Theory in Education · Education Discipline and Inequality · Gender Studies · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies

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