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Exploring Approaches To Data Literacy Through A Critical Race Theory Perspective, Britney Johnson, Benjamin R. Shapiro, Betsy Disalvo, Annabel Rothschild, Carl Disalvo
Exploring Approaches To Data Literacy Through A Critical Race Theory Perspective, Britney Johnson, Benjamin R. Shapiro, Betsy Disalvo, Annabel Rothschild, Carl Disalvo
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In this paper, we describe and analyze a workshop developed for a work training program called DataWorks. In this
workshop, data workers chose a topic of their interest, sourced and processed data on that topic, and used that data to create
presentations. Drawing from discourses of data literacy; epistemic agency and lived experience; and critical race theory, we analyze the workshops’ activities and outcomes. Through this analysis, three themes emerge: the tensions between epistemic agency and the context of work, encountering the ordinariness of racism through data work, and understanding the personal as communal and intersectional. Finally, critical race theory …