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Bryan, Kisha C. – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background/Context: With the incessant wave of anti-Black and anti-immigrant sentiments, the extant political situation in the contemporary United States presents an ideal space, place, and time to investigate Black immigrant students' experiences and examine the ways in which dominant racial and linguistic ideologies shape their literate…
Descriptors: Immigrants, African American Students, Student Experience, Ideology
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Donahoo, Saran – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background/Context: Although frequently associated with the United States, affirmative action is not a uniquely American social policy. Indeed, 2003 witnessed review and revision of affirmative action policies affecting higher education institutions in both France and the United States. Using critical race theory (CRT) as a theoretical lens, this…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Racial Factors, Racial Differences, Program Effectiveness
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Diangelo, Robin J. – Teachers College Record, 2006
This study uses a poststructural analysis to explicate the social production of Whiteness in a college classroom. Whiteness scholars define Whiteness as reference to a set of locations that are historically, socially, politically, and culturally produced, and intrinsically linked to relations of domination. Using this framework of social…
Descriptors: White Students, Foreign Students, Classroom Environment, Educational Attitudes
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Fine, Michelle; Bloom, Janice; Burns, April; Chajet, Lori; Guishard, Monique; Payne, Yasser; Perkins-Munn, Tiffany; Torre, Maria Elena – Teachers College Record, 2005
This article reports on the extensive qualitative and quantitative findings of a multi-method participatory study designed to assess urban and suburban youths' experiences of racial class justice or injustice in their schools and throughout the nation. Constructed as a letter to Zora Neale Hurston, who was immediately critical of the Brown…
Descriptors: African American Students, Racial Discrimination, Social Bias, Public Education
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Ogbu, John U. – Teachers College Record, 1994
Explains the persistence of inequality between blacks and whites despite changes since 1960, noting why a gap persists in the school performances of the two groups. The article looks at the difference between class stratification and racial stratification and then discusses civil rights, social change, and the educational consequences of racial…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Blacks, Civil Rights
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Kantor, Harvey; Brenzel, Barbara – Teachers College Record, 1992
Postwar transformation of U.S. cities gave new form to longstanding racial and economic educational inequities, intensifying barriers to achievement facing disadvantaged students. By concentrating disadvantaged students in inferior innercity schools, educational problems are intensified. Bureaucratic school systems do little to address new…
Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education