ERIC Number: EJ1099720
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
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Stories of Smartness and Whiteness in School Pictures and Yearbooks
Bybee, Eric Ruiz
Equity & Excellence in Education, v49 n2 p143-156 2016
This article explores the way that discourses of smartness and whiteness are produced and reproduced in schooling. Using an approach grounded in narrative research, I explore the convergences and contradictions between my own educational autobiography and the representations of schooling found in my school pictures and yearbooks. In my analysis, I argue that white supremacy played an important role in the construction of my own story of smartness throughout my primary and secondary schooling experiences. I also argue that yearbooks form powerful "artifacts of smartness" (Hatt, 2011, p. 448) that can be used to interpret and interrogate personal experiences as well as larger societal discourses of smartness and whiteness in schooling.
Descriptors: Yearbooks, Photography, Whites, Racial Bias, Intelligence, Elementary Secondary Education, Social Bias, Educational History, Cultural Influences, Ethnography, Personal Narratives, Mexican Americans, Track System (Education), Honors Curriculum, Educational Environment
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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