The purpose of this research was to document how racial ideologies were expressed in relational organizing practices in a working class Latino Elementary school
in Texas. By identifying dominant and subjugated racial ideologies, this research contributes to effort to challenge inequitable racial systems in schools through
community organizing for school reform.
I employed a participant ethnographic approach by becoming a volunteer relational organizer with a community organizing institution at Walnutbrook Elementary. I worked with working class Latino parents and the school staff to identify and challenge inequitable racial systems at the school. Using a racial systemic framework, I describe how dominant racial ideologies shaped relational organizing practices through racial
narratives repeated throughout the organizing actions. I also document how some working class Latina leaders were able to counter narrate subjugated ideologies by using
differential techniques as their organizing practices. Through microethnographic case
studies, I am able to tell the stories of how schooling institutions continued inequitable
racial systems by narrating dominant racial ideologies while local community leaders
created spaces through which to challenge these systems and ideologies by privileging
their Latina epistemologies. / text
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/ETD-UT-2011-12-4488 |
| Date | 27 January 2012 |
| Creators | Milk, Christopher Lee |
| Source Sets | University of Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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