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Reading Whiteness in Popular Texts: Helping College Students from Underserved Communities Become Racially Literate in “Post Racial” America

open access: yesJournal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 2016
This essay argues that the first-year composition class and freshman seminar can serve as spaces in which college students from underserved communities develop the skills to deconstruct, analyze, and disrupt systemic racism in texts and in their ...
Florence Kabba
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding the Housing and Support Experience of People With Complex Disability in Australia: A Qualitative Analysis of Submissions to the Disability Royal Commission

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Australian government established the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (‘Disability Royal Commission’, DRC) to investigate widespread mistreatment of people with disability. Nearly 10,000 people with disability, their families and supporters engaged with the DRC.
Kate D'Cruz   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transition From Primary to Secondary School: Igniting Attendance and Engagement Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students Through National Policy Reform

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Closing the Gap reform aims to address disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are specific targets focussed on key educational transitions; yet, the transition to secondary education is not a targeted priority.
Azhar Hussain Potia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making Commitments to Racial Justice Actionable [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In this article, we articulate a framework for making our commitments to racial justice actionable, a framework that moves from narrating confessional accounts to articulating our commitments and then acting on them through both self-work and work-with ...
Diab, Rasha   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leadership and Race: How to Develop and Support Leadership that Contributes to Racial Justice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This report explores the ways in which our current thinking about leadership often contributes to producing and maintaining racialized dynamics, and identifies a set of core competencies associated with racial justice leadership.
Deborah Meehan   +6 more
core  

Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

Truth, Trust, and Selective Solidarity in Nursing

open access: yesHealth Equity
Racism remains deep-seated in nursing culture, education, and practice, and within professional organizations, despite widespread declarations of commitment to address racism.
Gerard Soucy   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Voices from the margins: ‘Black’ Caribbean and Mexican heritage women educators in the rural south

open access: yes, 2005
This paper explores the ways in which immigrant and migrant women educators in the rural South understand and construct narratives of their lives. The ‘Black’ Caribbean and Mexican heritage women educators in this study experience and interpret events ...
Beck, Scott, Gilpin, Lorraine
core   +2 more sources

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