A 'bad fit' for 'our' kids: politics, identity, race and power in parental discourse on educational programming & child well-being. Issue 2 (15th March 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sugrue, Erin P.
• Is Part Of: Critical discourse studies. Volume 16:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 222
• Page End: 236
• Publication Date: 2019-03-15
• Subjects: Critical discourse analysis -- critical race theory -- whiteness as property -- parental discourses on education; Critical discourse analysis -- Periodicals; 300
• DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2018.1538891
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1740-5904

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Issues of race and class have long been at the center of discourses involving the American public education system. Although contemporary discourse regarding issues of race and power in American schools may be less overt in racist ideology than in previous decades, the impact of coded racist discourse can be equally powerful and dangerous. A need exists to identify racist and classist discourse in educational contexts so that the ideologies and practices these discourses reflect can be challenged. This paper uses critical discourse analysis and Critical Race Theory to examine how the discourses of race, class, and power are enacted within a discussion of educational programing and child well-being in a predominantly White, upper-middle class suburban public school.