Condition or Process? Researching Race in Education

Adrienne D. Dixon, Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, Cecilia E. Suarez, William T. Trent

• Publisher: American Educational Research Association
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9780935302813
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

The question of why we need to think about how we research race demands a conceptualization of race that captures both its social construction and its temporal evolution. We need both an understanding of race and clarity about how we talk about it in our design and conduct of research, and in how we interpret and apply it in our findings. As a field, we can use research on race and racism in education to help construct social change. Our purpose with this volume is to underscore the persistence of the discriminatory actions—processes—and the normalization of the use of race (and class)—conditions—to justify the existing and growing disparity between the quality of life and opportunity for middle-class and more affluent Whites and that for people of color and people of color who live in poverty. As editors of this volume, we wonder what more we could learn and understand about the process and condition of race if we dare to ask bold questions about race and racism and commit to methods and analyses that respect the experiences and knowledges of our research participants and partners.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• INTRODUCTION Is Race a Condition or a Process in Education?
• 1 The Pursuit of Promising Educational Practices at the Crossroads of Race and Culture
• 2 Race, Space, and Education Research: Revisiting Tobler’s First Law of Geography
• 3 Deamonte Driver and the Perils of Race and Health Care in the Affordable Care Act Era
• 4 The Contrarieties of (Mixed) Race: The Meaning of Race From a Multiracial Perspective
• 5 Asian Americans and Affirmative Action: Addressing the Color of Privilege
• 6 Breaking Down the Ghetto Girl Stereotypes to Dismantle Systems of Oppression: (De)ciphering the Humanity of Black Language and Black People
• 7 Decolonizing Knowledge Through High School Ethnic Studies
• 8 How I Came to Work in the Field of Racial Microaggressions: A Critical Race Theory Journey From Marginality to Microaggressions
• 9 Talking Old Soldiers: Research, Education, Intersectionality, and Critical Race Praxis in the “End Times”
• 10 Hired On, Not Hired In: Early Career Scholars’ Experiences With Race in Education
• AFTERWORD Trying to Make It Real—Compared to What?
• About the Contributors