From Color-Blind to Color-Conscious

Prichard, Robin

doi:10.1080/15290824.2018.1532570

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“…Ballet's privileged position in competitive dance training gives weight to the physical attributes valued in a dancer including 'long limbs in relation to the torso; flexible ankles, hips, and backs; reduced weight; and pale skin' (Zeller 2017). The status of ballet being considered a technical base for training other competitive styles, regardless of the historical roots of those styles, reinforces racial bias inherent in Western concert dance systems of training (Davis 2018: Prichard 2019: Schupp 2018, 2019a, 2019b. Emphasis on certain coveted physical attributes, and a hierarchy of dance genres placing ballet at the top, lends to the systematic marginalization of people of colour in Western concert dance training and competition.…”

Section: Horizontal Surveillance: Flattening the Hierarchymentioning

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Manifestations of surveillance in private sector dance education: the implicit challenges of integrating technology

Berg

2020

Research in Dance Education

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This paper seeks to illuminate the challenges of integrating new technologies in private sector dance education and explores the formation of digitally mediated identities in adolescent female dancers. Autoethnographic research is supported by Foucauldian theory as well as surveillance and social media scholarship. Research examines how the imagined audience, produced by live-streamed closedcircuit television (CCTV), perpetuates the status quo in systems of Western concert dance education and creates new dimensions in dance competition culture. The values of the dominant class are embedded in institutional systems of training. Structural systems of oppression exclude marginalized groups and maintain the status quo. The argument is extended to include how the imagined audience produced by social media plays a role in reinforcing dance's established exclusionary aesthetic, as dancers create online identities to meet perceived audience expectations and build cultural capital. The discussion explores ways in which the imagined audience exacerbates current concerns in the field of dance education. Existing socioeconomic and institutional barriers perpetuate patriarchal values and reinforce gender expectations. In a post-pandemic world, teachers and students will negotiate new dimensions in dance education produced by manifestations of surveillance as this technological mediation will continue to be the norm.

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Section: Horizontal Surveillance: Flattening the Hierarchymentioning

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Manifestations of surveillance in private sector dance education: the implicit challenges of integrating technology

Berg

2020

Research in Dance Education

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“…How might an institution reduce the impacts of colorblindness on efforts to provide effective race socialization for children? First, individual endorsement of colorblind ideology can be shifted through training that encourages reflection on one's own racial identity and attitudes (Milner, 2012) and that teaches about the ways that colorblind policies operate in institutions and harm people of color (Prichard, 2019; Ullucci & Battey, 2011). Meaningful opportunities for intergroup contact and exposure to greater diversity can improve racial attitudes and have even been shown to reduce White adults’ colorblind ideologies (Gaither et al., 2019).…”

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Understanding the challenges and opportunities of talking to children about race and racism in child‐facing institutions

Wilton,

Sullivan,

Albuja

et al. 2023

Social Issues Policy Review

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Researchers from a range of disciplines emphasize that effectively socializing children about race and racism is vital to promoting positive outcomes, such as disrupting the development of racist attitudes and beliefs. While parents and guardians influence children's racial attitudes and beliefs, children also learn about race and racism from many other important adults in their lives, such as teachers, community leaders, and librarians. Yet race‐related topics are largely absent or underdeveloped from child‐facing programming, policies, and procedures. In this paper, we describe three major barriers to effectively socializing children about race and racism within child‐facing institutions like libraries, museums, and schools: (1) adults’ (often inaccurate) beliefs about children's social and cognitive race‐related development, (2) adults’ knowledge and comfort discussing race and racism with others, and (3) social norms that minimize explicit discussion of race and racism in institutional and interpersonal contexts. To contextualize these barriers, we address how children can process and reason about race across childhood and outline the evidence‐based benefits of socializing children about race and racism inside and outside the home. Finally, we provide recommendations aimed at translating this research to child‐focused spaces and provide general guidelines to consider when implementing such practices in their own spheres of influence. In sum, we argue that effective socialization about race and racism benefits all children and can (and should!) be achieved successfully outside of the home; and that adults who interact with children must interrogate their own beliefs, biases, and perspectives, work to develop cultural competence, and invest in and continually reassess practices and policies to facilitate effective socialization about race and racism.

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Illuminating Dancers’ Kinaesthetic Experiences

Ehrenberg

2021

Kinaesthesia and Visual Self-Reflection in Contemporary Dance

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From Color-Blind to Color-Conscious

Cited by 14 publications

References 20 publications

Manifestations of surveillance in private sector dance education: the implicit challenges of integrating technology

Manifestations of surveillance in private sector dance education: the implicit challenges of integrating technology

Understanding the challenges and opportunities of talking to children about race and racism in child‐facing institutions

Illuminating Dancers’ Kinaesthetic Experiences

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