"You Guys Are Missing the Point": How K–12 School Districts, Higher Educational Institutions, and Educators Evade Anti-Racist Work

• In Event: AERA Graduate Student Research-in-Progress Session 5
  In Roundtable Session: Understanding the Experiences of Teachers of Color (Table 9)

Abstract

Graduate students of color in educational fields must navigate institutional structures that are designed to cause them harm and stress. There is a need for research that uplifts the experiences of these students in an effort to reveal the racist ideologies that permeate our educational structures through the form of new racism. In this paper, I will use critical discourse analysis to analyze a piece of discourse from a group of educators of color that I meet with weekly. Fairclough's three-tiered interpretive framework will be utilized with tenets of Critical Race Theory to examine how short samples of discourse can unveil the operation of whiteness and the permanence of racism in our K-12 schools.

Author

• Sophie Kasahara, University of Minnesota