Building Awareness of Race and Place: Reflections from a Multiracial Research Group on Impactful Life Experiences
Living the Work: Promoting Social Justice and Equity Work in Schools around the World
ISBN: 978-1-78441-128-2, eISBN: 978-1-78441-127-5
Publication date: 5 October 2015
Abstract
As a team of eight scholars at the University of Texas, we collaborate to research issues that directly focus on the development, training, and experiences of anti-racist and social justice leaders in urban secondary schools. Each of us considered a personal event, or series of events, that significantly influenced our thinking about social justice. We share experiences of personal and institutional racism, and reflect on how these experiences continue to shape our awareness of race. Our perspectives capture how issues of race and racial discrimination persist in a status quo educational system and how past experiences directly influence our work.
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Acknowledgment
This chapter was supported, in part, by funding from the U.S. Department of Education. The views presented in this chapter do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Department of Education or of the authors’ affiliated institutions/organization.
Citation
Lippa, A.P., Lee, L.C., Lehr, M.D., Spikes, D.D., Coward, L.A., Davis, B.W., Gooden, M.A. and Hall, D.R. (2015), "Building Awareness of Race and Place: Reflections from a Multiracial Research Group on Impactful Life Experiences", Living the Work: Promoting Social Justice and Equity Work in Schools around the World (Advances in Educational Administration, Vol. 23), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 183-214. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-366020140000023009
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