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"We didn't have courage": Internalizing Racism and the Limits of Participatory Action Research

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Abstract

This article follows a group of Latino/a English language learners conducting Participatory Action Research in a segregated school. I examine how students’ perspectives on civic engagement shifted after they joined an after‐school initiative that brought them together with students from a private Jewish day school located directly across the street. Even as students formed new perspectives on civic engagement throughout the year, internalized racism framed how they understood their capacity for civic action.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)246-261
Number of pages16
JournalAnthropology & Education Quarterly
Volume49
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 26 2018

Funding

Akom, Antwi A. 2008. “Black Metropolis and Mental Life: Beyond the “Burden of ‘Acting White’.” ” Anthropology and Education Quarterly 39 (3): 247–65. Bell, Derrick. 1976. “Serving Two Masters: Integration Ideals and Client Interests in School Desegregation Litigation.” The Yale Law Review 85 (4): 470–516. Burd-Sharps, Sarah, and Kristen Lewis. 2012. A Portrait of Marin. American Human Development Project of the Social Science Research Council. California Department of Education. 2016. “Ed-Data Education Data Partnership.” Accessed May 8. http://www.ed-data.org. Cammarota, Julio, and Michelle Fine. 2008. “Youth Participatory Action Research: A Pedagogy for Transformational Resistance.” In Revolutionizing Education, edited by Julio Cammarota and Michelle Fine, 1–12. New York: Routledge. Castagno, Angelina. 2008. “‘I Don’t Want to Hear That!’: Legitimating Whiteness through Silence in Schools.” Anthropology and Education Quarterly 39 (3): 314–33.

Funders
Social Science Research Council

    Keywords

    • Racism
    • PAR
    • Civic Engagement

    Disciplines

    • Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
    • Education

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