Disrupting Postsecondary Prose

2015/09/01 by Lori D. Patton · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Critical Race Theory in Education #Education Discipline and Inequality #Teacher Education and Leadership Studies

paper · doi:10.1177/0042085915602542

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Abstract

Ladson-Billings and Tate ushered critical race theory (CRT) into education and challenged racial inequities in schooling contexts. In this article, I consider the role CRT can play in disrupting postsecondary prose, or the ordinary, predictable, and taken for granted ways in which the academy has functioned for centuries as a bastion of racism and White supremacy. I disrupt racelessness in education, but focus primarily on postsecondary contexts related to history, access, curriculum, policy, and research. The purpose of this article is to commemorate and extend Ladson-Billings and Tate’s work toward a CRT of higher education.

Citations

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