(Im)mutable Resources: The Settler Colonial Discourse of School Websites

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Abstract

In the landscape of educational inequality in the United States, much attention has been given to the role that resources play in maintaining and (re)producing inequalities between schools. However, little attention has been given to how schools as settler colonial institutions make-meaning of resources. Through a critical discourse analysis of thirty-one school websites, this paper uses settler colonialism as a conceptual framework to understand how schools’ positioning of resources reflects and (re)constitutes racialized and classed resource acquisition, control, maintenance, hoarding, and dispossession in New York City public schools.

Author

• Alyssa Lyons, CUNY-Lehman College