scholarly journals Combating Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia in Canada: Toward Pandemic Anti-Racism Education in Post-covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-211
Author(s):  
Shibao Guo ◽  
Yan Guo
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Educational Improvement ◽  
Successful Model ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Relations ◽  
Chinese Descent

Abstract Canada is often held up internationally as a successful model of immigration. Yet, Canada’s history, since its birth as a nation one hundred and fifty-four years ago, is one of contested racial and ethnic relations. Its racial and ethnic conflict and division resurfaces during covid-19 when there has been a surge in racism and xenophobia across the country towards Asian Canadians, particularly those of Chinese descent. Drawing on critical race theory and critical discourse analysis, this article critically analyzes incidents that were reported in popular press during the pandemic pertaining to this topic. The analysis shows how deeply rooted racial discrimination is in Canada. It also reveals that the anti-Asian and anti-Chinese racism and xenophobia reflects and retains the historical process of discursive racialization by which Asian Canadians have been socially constructed as biologically inferior, culturally backward, and racially undesirable. To combat and eliminate racism, we propose a framework of pandemic anti-racism education for the purpose of achieving educational improvement in post-covid-19.

scholarly journals Majoritarian Stories and Counterstories: Critical Race Theory Approaches to Countering Deficit Discourse in Higher Education

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirk Greenwood
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Students Of Color ◽  
Postsecondary Institutions ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory

This paper employs critical discourse analysis to interrogate rhetorics of academic deficit subtending institutional neglect of equitable opportunity for students of color at U.S. postsecondary institutions. It further reviews Critical Race Theory literature in education, paying special attention to research that foregrounds social class as a discriminate variable distinguishing truly liberatory pedagogies from the merely critical.

scholarly journals The COVID States Project #73: American Attitudes Toward Critical Race Theory

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alauna Safarpour ◽  
David Lazer ◽  
Jennifer Lin ◽  
Caroline H Pippert ◽  
James Druckman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Dominant Group ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Executive Orders ◽  
Cable News ◽  
Socially Constructed

In a few short years, the scholarly approach known as Critical Race Theory (CRT) went from a relatively obscure academic framework to the new front in the American culture wars. CRT has made its way to the front pages of newspapers, cable news show’s primetime specials, Presidential executive orders, and a slate of laws and regulations dictating how history can be taught in public schools. Critical Race Theory1 is an academic movement of scholars who investigate and seek to change the existing power dynamic between race and racism in society.CRT began in the 1970s among legal scholars and has since influenced other fields such as sociology, education, and ethnic studies. CRT consists of several basic tenants or themes, although substantial individual variation exists across scholars. Among these is the notion that race is socially constructed (there is no biological basis for what we think of as race), the idea that racism is normalized as part of everyday society (it is entrenched in modern institutions and policies and can be difficult to combat), and the idea that the dominant group have little incentive to eliminate racism because the current racial hierarchy serves important material and psychological needs. Other themes in CRT include the idea of intersectionality which argues that belonging to multiple oppressed groups is a distinctive experience that is more than just the sum of its parts.

scholarly journals A critical discourse analysis of a local enactment of sport for integration policy: Helping young refugees or self-help for voluntary sports clubs?

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 1152-1166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Dowling
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
Refugee Youth ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Sport Policy ◽  
Sports Club ◽  
Constructivist Perspective

An increasing number of scholars argue that politicians’ ill-defined policies of sport for integration are difficult to realize and, paradoxically, can lead to a sense of alterity and exclusion. This paper provides a micro-analysis of the ‘slippage’ between government visions of sport for integration for refugees and the local, contextual interpretations of sport policy for inclusion. From a critical constructivist perspective, influenced by critical race theory, it examines policy enactment by asking: ‘How did sport for integration of young refugees get talked and written about in a voluntary sports club?’; ‘How did this language in use construct the practices that became locally naturalized?’; and ‘What ideologies were underpinning these realities’? Findings from the critical discourse analysis revealed that local enactments of policy for integration were mostly built upon assimilationist ideas that can exclude, rather than integrate, refugees, and did ideological work to uphold racialized hierarchies in sport. Alternative visions of integration (such as two-way processes of integration or ideas about celebrating cultural diversity) were rationally marginalized in the everyday business of the voluntary sports club, namely, competitive sport. The findings contribute to the literature that claims VSCs may be unsuitable arenas for integration initiatives aiming to provide meaningful physical activity for refugee youth.

scholarly journals Gendered Make-up

2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mindy Blaise Ochsner
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Structuralist Framework ◽  
Kindergarten Classroom ◽  
Gender Discourses

This article summarizes a recently completed study of gender in an urban kindergarten classroom in the USA. Using a feminist post-structuralist framework to analyze gender, this qualitative study examined how 5 and 6 year-old students socially constructed themselves as gendered beings through the heterosexual matrix. By documenting and analyzing students' talk, actions, drawings, and writings, this investigation explored how students regulated the gendered social order of the classroom through their understandings of gender norms and ideals. Using critical discourse analysis, six gender discourses emerged, uncovering the heterosexual matrix. One of those gender discourses, labeled ‘make-up,’ is briefly discussed.

The representation of migrants in the Italian press

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Montali ◽  
Paolo Riva ◽  
Alessandra Frigerio ◽  
Silvia Mele
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Group Relations ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Cultural Belonging ◽  
Qualitative Analyses

The research analyses media discourse on migration in Italy, regarded as a means of reproducing and maintaining a racist interpretation of inter-group relations. The theoretical framework is the Critical Discourse Analysis approach. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were performed on data consisting of headlines and articles from the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, published between 1992 and 2009. Overall, it emerged that discourse is built according to themes and discursive strategies already identified by similar research based on European media, indicating how this system of representations defines a common sense of cultural belonging and a shared construction of ethnic relations. The rather long time span considered in the study allowed us to focus on how the discourse on migration in Italy might have evolved over time, but also to identify any elements that may have remained unchanged.

Meet Me at the Corner: The Intersection of Literacy Instruction and Race for Urban Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Croom
Keyword(s):  
Urban Education ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Literacy Instruction ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
White Female ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Alternative Account ◽  
Female Adult ◽  
Literacy Research ◽  
Race Analysis

This article focuses on some languaging that occurred during a race event within a literacy lesson involving a racially White, female adult and a racially Black, male child. I analyze an excerpt from this race event, illustrating an approach to race analysis which might be useful to the field of urban education. I ask, “What is the racial significance of this teacher’s language during literacy instruction?” In other words, I am pursuing what a practice theory of race might allow us to know when this alternative account of race is used to examine an observed episode of teaching. Accordingly, I introduce practice of race theory (PRT) and report my race critical discourse analysis of one teacher’s observed instructional language. Findings are relevant to literacy instruction, and future literacy research is recommended, especially in urban education.

Critical Autism Studies, Race, Gender, and Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Roscigno
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Behavioral Approach ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Models Of Disability ◽  
Autistic People

Critical autism studies (CAS) is an emergent field that challenges deficit-based thinking about autism. Early scholars of autism, such as psychologists Bruno Bettelheim, Leo Kanner, or Ivar O. Lovaas, adopted a biomedical or behavioral approach to the study of autism. Rejecting such an approach, critical disability studies and by extension CAS have developed robust theoretical frameworks to account for the sociocultural and embodied experience of disability, including the social model of disability, the cultural model of disability, and poststructural models of disability. These approaches to the study of disability challenge medical models of disability that understand disability as an individual experience of impairment. Disability is framed as a problem to be solved via biomedicine and helping professionals and instead conceive of disability as a web of sociocultural entanglements. In contrast, theoretical approaches to critical autism studies include critical discourse analysis (CDA), feminist theory, and critical race theory. Scholars using CDA explore how ableism is produced and sustained through discourses, particularly public discourses within the media, scholarship, non-governmental organizations, and schools. Critical autism scholars who employ critical race theory seek to understand the intersectional identities of autistic people of color and the compounding effects of racism and ableism. Feminist approaches to the study of autism trouble gender stereotypes about autistic people, most notably Simon Baron Cohen’s extreme male brain theory.

Indonesian Weberian Social Stratification: The Case of Tionghoa-Pribumi Inter-ethnic Relations

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Patrik K. Meyer ◽  
Tomy Waskitho
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Dimension Theory ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Ethnic Conflicts ◽  
Class Status ◽  
Three Factor

Abstract As a country with multiple ethnicities, religions, and cultures, Indonesia has been suffering from protracted waves of inter-ethnic conflicts among its peoples. This research uses Critical Discourse Analysis (cda) to survey an array of mass and social media outlets, existing policies, and statistics to describe and interpret inter-ethnic relations between Tionghoa (Chinese Indonesians) and Javanese Pribumi (indigenous Indonesian Muslims). It adopts the Weberian three-factor social stratification model to group these relations under three main headings: class, status, and party. The analysis of this research is also enriched by using Geert Hofstede’s cultural-dimension theory. This research shows that Indonesia is socially stratified along Tionghoa-Pribumi lines. Importantly, the analysis also exposes that this stratification is not primarily due to economic inequalities as commonly assumed, but rather the result of deep religious and cultural incompatibilities and inadequate policies. Ultimately, Indonesia’s social stratification exacerbates the existing social inequality and perpetuates antagonistic Tionghoa-Pribumi relations.

Are we committed to issues of race? Institutional integrity across intercollegiate athletics

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 675-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Y Bimper ◽  
Louis Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Intercollegiate Athletics ◽  
National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Intercollegiate Athletic ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Institutional Integrity ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

The present study employs critical race theory in a critical discourse analysis of intercollegiate athletic departmental directives for high-profile National Collegiate Athletic Association member programs. Consideration of institutional integrity from critical perspectives can advance a nuanced understanding and gain further insight into the sociocultural issues and move toward eliminating inequities relevant to black student athlete stakeholders in the arena of intercollegiate athletics. The purpose of this research was to investigate the implicit function and perpetuation of contemporary racism in intercollegiate athletic organizations’ as they strategically address institutional integrity. A discussion of the findings are organized by two emergent themes: (a) Little skin in the game; and (b) Run-of-the-mill colorblindness. This paper concludes with implications for college sport and future research of intercollegiate athletics at the intersection of higher education.

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