Faces at the bottom of the well : the permanence of racism

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Faces at the bottom of the well : the permanence of racism

01 Jan 1992-

TL;DR: In this paper, the last Black Hero Divining a Racial Realism Theory The Rules of Racial Standing A Law Professors Protest Racisms Secret Bonding The Space Traders Epilogue: Beyond Despair

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Abstract: Introduction: Divining Our Racial Themes Racial Symbols: A Limited Legacy The Afrolantica Awakening The Racial Preference Licensing Act The Last Black Hero Divining a Racial Realism Theory The Rules of Racial Standing A Law Professors Protest Racisms Secret Bonding The Space Traders Epilogue: Beyond Despair

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Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth

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Tara J. Yosso

01 Mar 2005-Race Ethnicity and Education

TL;DR: The authors conceptualized community cultural wealth as a critical race theory (CRT) challenge to traditional interpretations of cultural capital, shifting the research lens away from a deficit view of Communities of Color as places full of cultural poverty disadvantages, and instead focusing on and learns from the array of cultural knowledge, skills, abilities and contacts possessed by socially marginalized groups that often go unrecognized and unacknowledged.

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Abstract: This article conceptualizes community cultural wealth as a critical race theory (CRT) challenge to traditional interpretations of cultural capital. CRT shifts the research lens away from a deficit view of Communities of Color as places full of cultural poverty disadvantages, and instead focuses on and learns from the array of cultural knowledge, skills, abilities and contacts possessed by socially marginalized groups that often go unrecognized and unacknowledged. Various forms of capital nurtured through cultural wealth include aspirational, navigational, social, linguistic, familial and resistant capital. These forms of capital draw on the knowledges Students of Color bring with them from their homes and communities into the classroom. This CRT approach to education involves a commitment to develop schools that acknowledge the multiple strengths of Communities of Color in order to serve a larger purpose of struggle toward social and racial justice.

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...…by including such methods as storytelling, family histories, biographies, scenarios, parables, cuentos, testimonios, chronicles and narratives (Bell, 1987, 1992, 1996; Delgado, 1989, 1993, 1995a, b, 1996; Espinoza, 1990; Olivas, 1990; Montoya, 1994; Carrasco, 1996; Solórzano & Yosso, 2000,…...
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...CRT offers a response to Anzaldúa’s challenge in listening to the experiences of those ‘faces at the bottom of society’s well’ (Bell, 1992, p. v)....
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...CRT starts from the premise that race and racism are central, endemic, permanent and a fundamental part of defining and explaining how US society functions (Bell, 1992; Russell, 1992)....
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Critical Race Methodology: Counter-Storytelling as an Analytical Framework for Education Research:

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Daniel G. Solorzano¹, Tara J. Yosso²•Institutions (2)

University of California, Los Angeles¹, University of California, Santa Barbara²

01 Feb 2002-Qualitative Inquiry

TL;DR: In this article, critical race theory can inform a critical race methodology in education and the authors challenge the intercentricity of racism with other forms of subordination and expose deficit-informed research that silences and distorts epistemologies of people of color.

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Abstract: This article addresses how critical race theory can inform a critical race methodology in education. The authors challenge the intercentricity of racism with other forms of subordination and exposes deficit-informed research that silences and distorts epistemologies of people of color. Although social scientists tell stories under the guise of “objective” research, these stories actually uphold deficit, racialized notions about people of color. For the authors, a critical race methodology provides a tool to “counter” deficit storytelling. Specifically, a critical race methodology offers space to conduct and present research grounded in the experiences and knowledge of people of color. As they describe how they compose counter-stories, the authors discuss how the stories can be used as theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical tools to challenge racism, sexism, and classism and work toward social justice.

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...Storytelling has a rich and continuing tradition in African American (see Bell, 1987, 1992, 1996; Berkeley Art Center, 1982; Lawrence, 1992), Chicana/ Chicano (see Delgado, 1989, 1995a, 1996; Olivas, 1990; Paredes, 1977), and Native American (see Deloria, 1969; R. Williams, 1997) communities....
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...However, as a strategy of survival and a means of resistance, we will continue to work to tell the counter-stories of those “at the bottom of society’s well” (Bell, 1992, p. v)....
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...Methodologies that dismiss or decenter racism and its intersections with other forms of subordination omit and distort the experiences of those whose lives are daily affected by racism—those “at the bottom of society’s well” (Bell, 1992, p. vi)....
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...The work of Bell (1987, 1992, 1996), Delgado (1995a, 1995b, 1996), Solórzano and Yosso (2000, 2001, in press-a, in press-b), Solórzano and Delgado Bernal (2001), and Solórzano and Villalpando (1998) exemplify composite counter-narratives....
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Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions

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Alberto Alesina¹, Alberto Alesina², Alberto Alesina³, William Easterly⁴, Reza Baqir⁵ - Show less +1 more•Institutions (5)

Harvard University¹, National Bureau of Economic Research², Economic Policy Institute³, New York University⁴, International Monetary Fund⁵

01 Apr 1997-Social Science Research Network

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model that links heterogeneity of preferences across ethnic groups in a city to the amount and type of public goods the city supplies, and conclude that ethnic conflict is an important determinant of local public finances.

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Abstract: We present a model that links heterogeneity of preferences across ethnic groups in a city to the amount and type of public good the city supplies. We test the implications of the model with three related datasets: US cities, US metropolitan areas, and US urban counties. Results show that productive public goods -- education, roads, libraries, sewers and trash pickup -- in US cities (metro areas/urban counties) are inversely related to the city's (metro area's/county's) ethnic fragmentation, even after controlling for other socioeconomic and demographic determinants. Ethnic fragmentation is negatively related to the share of local spending on welfare. The results are mainly driven by observations in which majority whites are reacting to varying sizes of minority groups. We conclude that ethnic conflict is an important determinant of local public finances.

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Public goods and ethnic divisions

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Alberto Alesina¹, Reza Baqir², William Easterly³•Institutions (3)

National Bureau of Economic Research¹, University of California, Berkeley², World Bank³

01 Jan 1999

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model that links heterogeneity of preferences across ethnic groups in a city to the amount and type of public goods the city supplies, showing that the shares of spending on productive public goods - education, roads, sewers, and trash pickup - in U.S. cities (metro areas/urban counties) are inversely related to the city's ethnic fragmentation.

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Abstract: The authors present a model that links heterogeneity of preferences across ethnic groups in a city to the amount and type of public good the city supplies. Results show that the shares of spending on productive public goods - education, roads, sewers, and trash pickup _ in U.S. cities (metro areas/urban counties) are inversely related to the city's (metro area's/county's) ethnic fragmentation, even after controlling for other socioeconomic and demographic determinants. They conclude that the ethnic conflict is an important determinant of local public finances. In cities where ethnic groups are polarized, and where politicians have ethnic constituencies, the share of spending that goes to public goods is low. Their results are driven mainly by how white-majority cities react to varying minority-groups sizes. Voters choose lower public goods when a significant fraction of tax revenues collected from one ethnic group is used to provide public goods shared with other ethnic groups.

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Ideology: A Multidisciplinary Approach

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A Teun

01 Jan 1998

TL;DR: The Relevance of Discourse Discourse Structures Context Reproduction From Cognition to Discourse Persuasion Legitimation Ideological DiscourseStructures The Ideology and Discourse of Modern Racism Conclusions as mentioned in this paper

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Abstract: Introduction PART ONE: COGNITION Ideas and Beliefs Social Beliefs Structures and Strategies Structures of Ideologies Values Mental Models Consistency Consciousness Common Sense Knowledge and Truth Identity Social Cognition PART TWO: SOCIETY Ideology and Society Groups Group Relations Elites Dominant Ideologies? Institutions PART THREE: DISCOURSE The Relevance of Discourse Discourse Structures Context Reproduction From Cognition to Discourse Persuasion Legitimation Ideological Discourse Structures The Ideology and Discourse of Modern Racism Conclusions

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