Intersectionality and "Race" in Education

• Main Authors: Bhopal, Kalwant, Preston, John
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2012; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Research in Education
• Subjects: Discrimination in education; Race & Ethnic Studies; Sociology of Education; Success; Theories of Race & Ethnicity; Youth, Black; Youth, Black - United States - Social conditions; Young Mixed Race People; critical; young; michelle; obama; Contemporary British Media; Multicultural Day; british; Snoop Doggy Dogg; Vice Versa; CRT Concept; white; Contemporary UK Society; Wide UK Population; CRT Scholar; Young Men; national; Performative Politics; Michelle Obama; Mixed Race Students; Critical Race Feminist Theory; Discursive Agency; UK Graduate Labour Market; Discursive Practices; supremacy; Deputy Principal; Butler 1997a; Migrant Students; British Chinese Pupils; CRF; Interest Convergence Principle; Bla Bla Bla; Mixed Race Girls; theory; party
• ISBN: 9781138021518; 9780415888776; 1138021512; 0415888778
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203802755

Education is a controversial subject in which difficult and contested discourses are the norm. Individuals in education experience multiple inequalities and have diverse identifications that cannot necessarily be captured by one theoretical perspective alone. This edited collection draws on empirical and theoretical research to examine the intersections of "race," gender and class, alongside other aspects of personhood, within education. Contributors from the fields of education and sociology seek to locate the dimensions of difference and identity within recent theoretical discourses such as Critical Race Theory, Judith Butler and 'queer' theory, post-structural approaches and multicultural models, as they analyze whiteness and the education experience of minority ethnic groups. By combining a mix of intellectually rigorous, accessible, and controversial chapters, this book presents a distinctive and engaging voice, one that seeks to broaden the understanding of education research beyond the confines of the education sphere into an arena of sociological and cultural discourse.