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Owner: Shelby Leigh Smith
Owner Email: shelbysm@usc.edu
Paper Title: Racist Logics in Educational Counter-Movements: A Critical Policy Discourse Analysis
Session Title: Critical Analyses of Legal Decisions Across Settings (Table 32)
Paper Type: Roundtable Presentation
Presentation Date: 4/13/2024
Presentation Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Descriptors: Critical Race Theory, Discourse Studies, Policy
Methodology: Qualitative
Author(s): Shelby Leigh Smith, University of Southern California; Jimmy Aguilar, University of Southern California
Unit: Division L - Educational Policies and Politics
Abstract: This study examines the semantic presentation of color evasiveness and whiteness as property in the policy documents of California Proposition 209 and Arizona HB 2281. These state-level policies serve as the focal point of this paper because they both acted as impetuses for policies across the United States that limited race-conscious educational practices. Through a Critical Race Theory informed Critical Policy Discourse Analysis of policies that spurred countermovements in P-20 education, this study provides insight into how social contexts are interpreted through and reflect racist logic to perpetuate White hegemonic values and racial subordination in education.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3102/2104154