"As Big a Thing for White Kids as Latinos": White Supremacy and School Integration

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session 20
  In Roundtable Session: Critical Race Theory in Educational Contexts: Implications for Analysis

Abstract

This study examines the challenges of sustaining work for educational justice in a racially, linguistically, and socioeconomically diverse school community. Drawing on data from an ethnographic case study of a dual-language immersion elementary school in the Midwest, I analyze how this intentionally integrated school community reproduces privilege, power, and exclusion along race, language, and class lines, despite its professed multicultural and social justice ideals.

Author

• Melissa Leigh Gibson, Marquette University