Exposing the Color-Evasive/Tolerance Framing Tactics of Educational Actors Amidst Anti-CRT/LGBTQ+ Rhetoric and Policy

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 5:10 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 1
  In Roundtable Session: Navigating the Political Landscape: LGBTQIA+ Youth and Educators' Experiences and Perceptions Amidst Anti-LGBTQIA+ Policies (Table 4)

Abstract

We apply a lens of color-evasive framing – which we extend to include notions of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) and critical policy analysis, to nuance how educational actors engaged with anti-CRT and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and policy. We gathered data from a range of sources to construct two composite contexts that capture educational actors' framing tactics within their localized contexts. Our composite contexts reveal how the color-evasive/tolerance frames of abstract liberalism and the minimization of racism/cisheteronormativity were leveraged to attack and censor DEI initiatives. This suggests that educational actors frequently centered their rights while simultaneously persevering and maintaining white supremacy and cisheteronormativity and minimizing and evading racism and SOGI.

Authors

• Bryan J. Duarte, Purdue University

• Érica Fernández, Miami University (OH)