Last Stop on the Underground Railroad, First Stop of Refried Segregation
Last Stop on the Underground Railroad, First Stop of Refried Segregation
Setting and Methodology
The second chapter provides a historical and contemporary overview of the internal structure of the school and the larger community in which it is embedded. It chronicles how today’s inequality in what one researcher identifies as “the promised land” (that is, suburbia) replicates the larger social, cultural, and economic forces that are implicated in the school’s academic practices and racial and gender expectations. Further, it is in this chapter that the author’s “nomadic subjectivities” and positionalities as an ethnographer are recorded. It relates specifically how the study was conducted and highlights the problems of obtaining the population of Black and White female students without the perceptions of teachers, school administrators, and parents.
Keywords: Normalcy, Misrecognition, Race, Gender, Complicity, Privilege, Ethnography, Social dynamics, Racial identity
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