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ERIC Number: EJ687758
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Jun
Pages: 30
Abstractor: Author
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0161-4681
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Struggles of Hope: How White Adult Educators Challenge Racism
Manglitz, Elaine; Johnson-Bailey, Juanita; Cervero, Ronald M.
Teachers College Record, v107 n6 p1245-1274 Jun 2005
The purpose of this study was to understand how White antiracist adult educators challenge racism. Seven participants from 5 different antiracist educational organizations were included. Data were collected over a 5-month period using interviews, documents, and participant observations and were analyzed using the constant comparative method. Results addressed the understandings of racism and White privilege that adult educators bring to their work and how these understandings guide them to challenge racism. A systemic understanding of racism, as well as an understanding of how their own White privilege affects them and People of Color, guided the adult educators' work. Their analyses of racism influenced the participants to take particular and strategic actions to challenge racism. The study has implications for adult educators who recognize the entrenchment of racism in our society and who want to move their abstract understandings to the concrete level of daily interactions and take specific actions within their educational practices.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Adult Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
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