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- Title
'I See Trayvon Martin': What Teachers Can Learn from the Tragic Death of a Young Black Male.
- Authors
Love, Bettina
- Abstract
The goal of this article is to examine the racially hostile environment of U.S. public schooling towards Black males. Drawing on the work of Foucault (Discipline and punish. The birth of the prison, Penguin Books, London, ; Michel Foucault: beyond structuralism and hermeneutics, The Harvester Press, Brighton, ) regarding the construction of society's power relations and Bourdieu's (Power and ideology in education, Oxford University Press, New York, ; Handbook of theory and research for the sociology of education. Greenwood Press, New York, ; The logic of practice. Polity Press, Cambridge, ) work concerning how beliefs are established, this article demonstrates how power operates within schools alongside racism, racial profiling, and gender stereotypes to criminalize Black males. Additionally, the utilization of the theoretical lenses of populational reasoning (Popkewitz in Struggling for the soul: the politics of schooling and the construction of the teacher, Teachers College Press, New York, ), conceptual narrative (Somers and Gibson in Social theory and the politics of identity, Blackwell, Cambridge, ), and critical race theory (Delgado and Stefancic ) links the common narrative and the cultural memory of Black males to the death of Trayvon Martin and the treatment of Black males in schools.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PUBLIC education; AFRICAN American students; PUBLIC schools; POWER (Social sciences); FOUCAULT, Michel, 1926-1984; BOURDIEU, Pierre, 1930-2002
- Publication
Urban Review, 2014, Vol 46, Issue 2, p292
- ISSN
0042-0972
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11256-013-0260-7