Policied Identities: Children With Disabilities

Mutua, N. Kagendo

doi:10.4324/9781410607935-3

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“…This overrepresentation is The Vanishing Latino Males 13 even more pronounced among Latino and Black males (Losen & Orfield, 2002), which makes their college pathways that much more difficult to navigate. Nonetheless, the problem of stigmatization begins much earlier in the education pipeline, as children from economically poor Black or Latino families are increasingly labeled with the ill-defined "at risk" category even before they enter school (Mutua, 2001).…”

Section: "At Risk" Labels and Overrepresentation: Learning And Behavimentioning

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The Vanishing Latino Male in Higher Education

Sáenz

Ponjuán

2008

Journal of Hispanic Higher Education

261

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While we call attention to the wide gap between Latino students and all other population segments in receiving a post-secondary education and the resulting significant ramifications in every area of society, we must also sound an alarm at the continually decreasing number of male Latinos completing post-secondary degrees. A growing public concern is being voiced about the declining number of all males entering higher education, but where is the call to action on behalf of the already small and still declining number of Latino male students entering higher education? Professors Victor B. Saenz and Luis Ponjuan thoroughly explore the social, cultural and economic factors that contribute to this phenomenon as well as reveal what Latino males of college age are engaged in instead of higher education. Where will Latino male role models rise from to lead the next leaders? From labor, the military, or prison? This country is in desperate need of educated Latino male leaders in every sector of society. Without them, the country's knowledge worker potential will be debilitated. Saenz and Ponjuan also offer exemplars of programs, foundations, and organizations that are dedicated to supporting and encouraging Latino males to take on leadership roles and excel in education. It is up to us, our institutions, and local, state and federal policymakers to take heed of these examples and fund similar endeavors across the country.

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Section: "At Risk" Labels and Overrepresentation: Learning And Behavimentioning

confidence: 99%

The Vanishing Latino Male in Higher Education

Sáenz

Ponjuán

2008

Journal of Hispanic Higher Education

261

242

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“…Various studies have attempted to explain factors associated with teachers' negative attitudes toward children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. They demonstrated that educators hold different attitudes toward children as a function of their ethnicity (Ford & Webb, 1994;Prieto & Zucker, 1981;Zucker & Prieto, 1977), gender (Gagné, 1993), and socioeconomic status (Frey, 2002;Guskin, Peng, & Simon, 1992;Mutua, 2001). Furthermore, a number of researchers have investigated the role of teachers in the referral process in an attempt to explain the effect of children's characteristics on teachers' educational decision making in special education programs.…”

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Effect of Children's Ethnicity on Teachers' Referral and Recommendation Decisions in Gifted and Talented Programs

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Mutua

Alsheikh

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Remedial and Special Education

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This study examines the effect of students' ethnicity on teachers' educational decision making. A total of 207 elementary school teachers from a large midwestern city participated in this study. All participants were randomly assigned to one of three treatment conditions. Each group was provided with a short case vignette describing a gifted child. One third of the teachers read a vignette describing a European American student, one third read a vignette describing an African American student, and one third served as a control group and received no information about the student's ethnicity. After reading the vignette, all participants were asked to respond to two questions. The results of this study indicated that the student's ethnicity did make a difference in the teachers' referral decisions.

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“…This process of internal colonization in schools begins long before students of color become "disruptive" in school contexts. For example, Mutua (2001), using an ethnographic case study, describes "the pathologization of children of poverty" (p. 289) that occurs when they are labeled as mentally retarded and/or emotionally disturbed in public school contexts on the basis of evaluation tools that she argues are neither rational nor objective. Because the children in the study were from an African American family that received welfare, food stamps, and cash benefits, there already existed an assumption of "deviancy"-even before the children entered school; therefore, school officials were predisposed to refer these children to special education programs.…”

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These Deadly Times: Reconceptualizing School Violence by Using Critical Race Theory and Disability Studies

Watts

Erevelles

2004

American Educational Research Journal

129

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Most pragmatic responses to school violence seek to assign individual blame and to instill individual responsibility in students. The authors of this article argue that school violence is the result of the structural violence of oppressive social conditions that force students (especially low-income, male African American and Latino students) to feel vulnerable, angry, and resistant to the normative expectations of prison-like school environments. From the vantage point of the intersection of critical race theory and materialist disability studies, the authors examine the impact of social, political, economic, and institutional structures on the social construction of the “deviant” student. They raise questions regarding violent “normalizing” structures and argue for more empowering alternatives.

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Policied Identities: Children With Disabilities

Cited by 8 publications

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The Vanishing Latino Male in Higher Education

The Vanishing Latino Male in Higher Education

Effect of Children's Ethnicity on Teachers' Referral and Recommendation Decisions in Gifted and Talented Programs

These Deadly Times: Reconceptualizing School Violence by Using Critical Race Theory and Disability Studies

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