American Dream for Students of Color

Myths and Barriers to Educational Success

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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In The American Dream for Students of Color, the tenets of the American Dream as a merit narrative enacted in schools are examined to better understand how beliefs about talent, hard work, and perseverance support the status quo rather than critical analyze barriers to educational success for students of color and students from a poverty context. Using narrative methodologies, this book explores the connections and consistencies within and between their personal narratives and the narratives of school youth and educators that work with them. Based on analysis of these shared stories, the authors argue for the importance of moving from individualized success stories that reify hard work and perseverance to collective, communal stories that serve to break down myths of meritocracy, critically examine inequities, and move educational advocates forward in authentic, audacious, hopeful ways.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-02-24
Mått151 x 229 x 9 mm
Vikt186 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor116
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793610997

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Drawing on their own stories as well as those of students and educators, Givens (now Givens Generett) and Olson challenge the merit narrative underlying the US school system, critiquing the emphasis on talent, hard work, and individual perseverance and the ignorance of systemic barriers to educational success. Although this call to adopt a system-based perspective in understanding students of color is not the first of its kind, the authors offer a unique narrative lens that hints at the intersectionality of race, class, gender, sexuality, and immigration status in the merit narrative rather than directly applying race analysis frameworks, such as critical race theory. Recommended. General readers through graduate students; two-year program students.