<i>The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy</i>. Lani Guinier , Gerald Torres

Woliver, Laura R.

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“…This group of students is an example of what Guinier et al (2009) refer to as "miner's canary." Much like the metaphorical canary in a coal mine that stops singing when conditions have become too noxious to breathe, alternative school students' distress and vulnerability should be seen as a signaling mechanism, pointing to places where the structures meant to sustain young people and their communities have become dangerously unstable.…”

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“I Hope I Make It”: Alternative School Students’ Attendance and the Need for an Expanded Accountability

2021

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Few empirical studies describe the interior world of alternative school settings. We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with 11 alternative school students, discussing factors that contribute to absenteeism as well as the circumstances that led them to enroll in an alternative setting. We find that students’ regular attendance is facilitated by (1) stable housing, (2) a means of transportation to school, (3) feelings of belonging, and (4) flexible supports from staff. Given that two of these pertain to matters beyond the school, we argue for an “expanded accountability,” in which the language of “accountability” is broadened to encompass non-educational policymaking.

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“I Hope I Make It”: Alternative School Students’ Attendance and the Need for an Expanded Accountability

2021

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“…This notion reframes race as a concept that denotes both social location and political commitment. In so doing, it can also then be used to build inclusive agendas that begin with the issues and concerns of communities of color but which are also expanded, at least potentially, to address class, gender, linguistic and other inequalities (Grosfoguel, 2016;Guinier and Torres, 2002;Han and Laughter, 2019).…”

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New Zealand is “racist as f**k”: Linguistic racism and te reo Māori

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2023

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A key feature of the confluence of modern nation-state formation and colonization has been the marginalization and denigration of minoritized language varieties, particularly Indigenous languages, over time. Indigenous languages have been actively proscribed in public language domains, such as education, leading to their inevitable shift and loss, in settler-colonial contexts worldwide. This process of linguistic hierarchization has long been recognized in the sociology of language and the sociology of nationalism but the overt and covert linguistic racism attendant upon it had remained relatively under-explored. Recent discussions within sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, however, have addressed this lacuna, particularly through the development of raciolinguistics as a theoretical framework. Linguistic racism, a form of cultural racism, uses discursive constructions of language use and related linguistic hierarchies as a proxy for the racialized discrimination and subordination of Indigenous peoples and other minoritized ethnic groups. Here, I explore discourses of linguistic racism by Pākehā (White) New Zealanders in Aotearoa New Zealand toward te reo Māori, the Indigenous Māori language, in everyday discourses and the media. I focus particularly on the public contestation of the increasing normalization of te reo Māori in contemporary New Zealand society, the result of the successes of the last 40 years of Māori language revitalization, via both overt and covert forms of linguistic racism toward te reo Māori. These discourses act in defense of English monolingualism, the direct linguistic legacy of New Zealand’s settler-colonial history, along with the privileges this history has provided for White, monolingual English-speaking New Zealanders. Interestingly, the racialized opposition to te reo Māori is most evident among older, White New Zealanders. This suggests the potential for change among younger New Zealanders and New Zealand’s increasingly diverse migrant population, both of whom appear more open to the ongoing development of societal bilingualism in English and te reo Māori.

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“…Latinx racial formation has demonstrated a racial hierarchy within the Latinx community that continues to support and uphold white supremacy, while at the same time reinforcing anti-Blackness (Bonilla-Silva 2002). Guinier and Torres (2002) explain that a racial bribe occurs as a strategy for racial/ethnic groups to advance in the racial hierarchy by essentially "becoming white." The ways that Latinx racial formation has manifested allow for a racial bribe where "lighter-skinned Latinos are offered a chance to be considered more acceptable to White non-Hispanics than darker-skinned Latinos" (Hernández 2022, p. 121).…”

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Latinx and Asian Engagement/Complicity in Anti-Blackness

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Stohry

2023

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We live in a world that desperately wishes to ignore centuries of racial divisions and hierarchies by positioning multiracial people as a declaration of a post-racial society. The latest U.S. 2020 Census results show that the U.S. population has grown in racial and ethnic diversity in the last ten years, with the white population decreasing. Our U.S. systems of policies, economy, and well-being are based upon “scientific” constructions of racial difference, hierarchy, Blackness, and fearmongering around miscegenation (racial mixing) that condemn proximity to Blackness. Driven by our respective multiracial Latinx and Asian experiences and entry points to anti-Blackness, this project explores the history of Latinx and Asian racialization and engagement with anti-Blackness. Racial hierarchy positions our communities as honorary whites and employs tactics to complicate solidarity and coalition. This project invites engagement in consciousness-raising in borderlands as sites of transformation as possible methods of addressing structural anti-Blackness.

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The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy. Lani Guinier , Gerald Torres

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“I Hope I Make It”: Alternative School Students’ Attendance and the Need for an Expanded Accountability

“I Hope I Make It”: Alternative School Students’ Attendance and the Need for an Expanded Accountability

New Zealand is “racist as f**k”: Linguistic racism and te reo Māori

Latinx and Asian Engagement/Complicity in Anti-Blackness

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