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The Dehumanizing Gaze: Race In The Context Of Academic Tourism, Leona Derango

The Commons: Puget Sound Journal of Politics

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The Commons: Volume 3, Issue 1, Kris Bohnenstiehl, Leona Derango, Ethan Stern-Ellis

The Commons: Puget Sound Journal of Politics

Table of Contents

• Letter From the Editors
  LILA BERNARDIN AND HANNAH WILLIAMS
• Who Sent the Devil Down to Georgia?
  KRIS BOHNENSTIEHL
• The Dehumanizing Gaze: Race in the Context of Academic Tourism
  LEONA DERANGO
• Balancing Populations of Electoral Districts
  ETHAN STERN-ELLIS

Pursuing Racial Equity In Suburban High Schools: How Informal School Leaders Rise To The Challenge Of Addressing Racial Inequity, Jon J. Schmidt, Sammie Marie Burton, Kelly Ferguson, Yvonne El Ashmawi, Teresa Neumann, Vanessa Dominguez, Travis Moody

Race and Pedagogy Journal: Teaching and Learning for Justice

This qualitative study examines the experiences of three informal teacher leaders in diversifying suburban high schools as they developed strategies to address racial inequity at their schools. Each participant in this study represented a distinct racial identity (Asian-American, Latino, white) with varying degrees of personal and professional race consciousness and positionality at their schools. Our study is framed by Banks (2014) theory of multicultural education, which suggests that schools must attend to five elements of school culture and practice in order to practice authentic multicultural education. With support from university faculty, the teacher leaders identified culturally responsive pedagogy and inclusive …

Do The ‘Write’ Thing: Utilizing Spike Lee To Read The Word And World, Dominick N. Quinney

Race and Pedagogy Journal: Teaching and Learning for Justice

College writing is an essential skill by which college students should begin to craft and construct their academic voices as they see and interpret the world around them in a scholarly setting. At the same time, as a result of varying phenomena, students have struggled to articulate themselves in written form, often performing what some describe as ‘writing apprehension'. In an effort to explore these phenomena, I developed a first-year seminar that allowed for both the concepts of race, ethnicity, identity, and writing to come together in an academic setting as a way to have students understand identity and its …

Covid-19 Outbreak Responses: The Pandemic Of Racism Against Africans Living Outside Their Continent, Emmanuel Lamptey, Dooshima Aki Benita, Evans Osei Boakye

Race and Pedagogy Journal: Teaching and Learning for Justice

The coronavirus pandemic has heightened racial discriminations and these discriminations are mostly directed toward Africans living outside the continent. One of the dark spots of the pandemic is that it has been a pandemic of racism in which the fundamental rights and freedoms of Africans are trampled upon. Aside from the health challenges and deaths associated with the COVID-19, Africans are the ones suffering the racial abuses, harassment and violent events in public spaces than any other race. This paper highlights and examine the racial discriminations levelled against Africans living in Asia, the main factor that made them vulnerable during …

Racism In The College Boardroom? A Personal Narrative And Case Study, Tom Olson

Race and Pedagogy Journal: Teaching and Learning for Justice

This paper explores the intersection of ethnicity, race, class, and unwritten but ingrained university policy through use of an anonymized personal narrative and case study. Intersectionality, as initially suggested by Lorde and later described by Crenshaw, provided the theoretical framework from which to explore this case. Development of the case was guided by four elements deemed as vital to effective case narratives: context, complexity, ambiguity, and relevance. The discussion focuses on the key question of the extent to which this was a case of racism, or if other factors might have accounted for the experience. The paper’s intent is to …

The Oregon Trail Is A Loop: Video Games And The Rebuilding Of Racist Structures In Education, Sam Pietsch

Race and Pedagogy Journal: Teaching and Learning for Justice

In the latter half of the 20^th century, American public education underwent sweeping changes that not only remade oppressive structures but reconfigured the underlying ideologies that served as the foundation for systemic oppression since this country’s inception. Conceptions of race, racial subjectivity, and neoliberal capitalism as it relates to education mutated over this period, looping the progressive trail blazed by the Civil Rights movement back onto itself. The story of the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) serves as a coherent narrative that tracks how institutional reconfiguration of race (demonstrated through the games they authored) entwined with the privatization of …