Racialised Discourses of Educational Opportunity: Neoliberal Education Reform and Community Resistance in Bronzeville, Chicago

Racialised Discourses of Educational Opportunity: Neoliberal Education Reform and Community Resistance in Bronzeville, Chicago

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Main Author: Sandeman, Lauren K.
Language:English
Published: Miami University / OhioLINK 2021
Subjects:
Education
Geography
Neoliberalism
Education Reform
School Closure
Community Resistance
Critical Discourse Analysis
Chicago
Online Access:http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami161909471708297
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spelling ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-miami1619094717082972021-08-03T07:17:09Z Racialised Discourses of Educational Opportunity: Neoliberal Education Reform and Community Resistance in Bronzeville, Chicago Sandeman, Lauren K. Education Geography Neoliberalism Education Reform School Closure Community Resistance Critical Discourse Analysis Chicago Neoliberalism has dramatically altered the landscape of urban education, in which public education is increasingly governed by private operators and market logics, facilitating the closing of 'failing' public schools and implicating education reform in broader processes of neoliberal urbanism. In 2004, Chicago's Board of Education launched 'Renaissance 2010' (Ren2010), a neoliberal reform which intended to revitalise the city's public schools, yet resulted in the disproportionate closure of neighbourhood schools in African American communities. This thesis employs Critical Discourse Analysis guided by Critical Race Theory to examine the dominant and counter discourses of Ren2010, by identifying how changes to educational opportunities are differentially framed and characterised by key stakeholder groups, prioritising the lived experiences and counter-stories of the African American community of Bronzeville. This research reveals how the Bronzeville community successfully disrupted neoliberal education reform and recontextualised the dominant discourse by invoking narratives of spatialised inequality and framing school closings as a racialised attack on the community. Critically, through the expansion of their spaces of engagement, the community rescaled the politics of Renaissance 2010 and situated the local injustice of an historic African American community in the national conversation on the fight for educational justice. 2021-04-22 English text Miami University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami161909471708297 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami161909471708297 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
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topic Education
Geography
Neoliberalism
Education Reform
School Closure
Community Resistance
Critical Discourse Analysis
Chicago
spellingShingle Education
Geography
Neoliberalism
Education Reform
School Closure
Community Resistance
Critical Discourse Analysis
Chicago
Sandeman, Lauren K.
Racialised Discourses of Educational Opportunity: Neoliberal Education Reform and Community Resistance in Bronzeville, Chicago
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title Racialised Discourses of Educational Opportunity: Neoliberal Education Reform and Community Resistance in Bronzeville, Chicago
title_short Racialised Discourses of Educational Opportunity: Neoliberal Education Reform and Community Resistance in Bronzeville, Chicago
title_full Racialised Discourses of Educational Opportunity: Neoliberal Education Reform and Community Resistance in Bronzeville, Chicago
title_fullStr Racialised Discourses of Educational Opportunity: Neoliberal Education Reform and Community Resistance in Bronzeville, Chicago
title_full_unstemmed Racialised Discourses of Educational Opportunity: Neoliberal Education Reform and Community Resistance in Bronzeville, Chicago
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