‘Your focus on race is narrow and exclusive:’ the derailment of anti-racist work through discourses of intersectionality and diversity
| Autor: | Jason Rodriguez, Kendralin J. Freeman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Intersectionality
White (horse) Liberal arts education White privilege media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050301 education Gender studies Racism 050903 gender studies Psychometrics of racism Situated Sociology 0509 other social sciences 0503 education media_common Diversity (politics) |
| Zdroj: | Whiteness and Education. 1:69-82 |
| ISSN: | 2379-3414 2379-3406 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/23793406.2016.1162193 |
| Popis: | In this article, we argue that discourses of “diversity” and “intersectionality” can undermine efforts to address racism, protect white privilege, and marginalize people of color. To illustrate how, we present an ethnographic account of student, staff, and faculty efforts to infuse campus culture at a small liberal arts college with an anti-racist pedagogy in response to a string of racist events on campus. Despite intentions, some community members put forward intersectional arguments and calls for “diversity” in ways that re-centered whiteness and situated discussions about race as exclusionary dialogues that victimized white subjects. These discourses also subsumed the experience of racism into a generalized and ostensibly universal experience of marginalization. We argue that this reflects the growing dominance of understanding racism as something that white subjects experience as much as people of color, which has emerged alongside a discourse of “diversity” that compels a focus on individual... |
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