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ERIC Number: EJ1158844
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Oct
Pages: 18
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0038-0407
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Inequality Frames: How Teachers Inhabit Color-Blind Ideology
Cobb, Jessica S.
Sociology of Education, v90 n4 p315-332 Oct 2017
This paper examines how public school teachers take up, modify, or resist the dominant ideology of color-blind racism. This examination is based on in-depth interviews with 60 teachers at three segregated schools: one was race/class privileged and two were disadvantaged. Inductive coding revealed that teachers at each school articulated a shared frame to talk about race and class: "legitimated advantage" at Heritage High School, "trickle-down dysfunction" at Bunker High School, and "antiracist dignity" at Solidarity High School. Each represents an "inequality frame": a local meaning system that mediates the dominant race/class ideology, arising from teachers' shared experiences of inequality in the school-as-workplace. The frames I observed responded to three organizational conditions that affected teachers' experiences of inequality: school demographics, material resources, and professional culture. Variations in these conditions across schools provided opportunity spaces for teachers to either accept race/class domination as common sense or to critique it.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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