Student and Teacher Negotiations of Racial Identity in an Afro-Ecuadorian Region

Autor/in	Johnson, Ethan Allen
Titel	Student and Teacher Negotiations of Racial Identity in an Afro-Ecuadorian Region
Quelle	In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 22 (2009) 5, S.563-584 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-8398
Schlagwörter	Race; Nationalism; Racial Identification; Interviews; Student Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Racial Attitudes; Racial Relations; Social Attitudes; Black Studies; Foreign Countries; Participant Observation; Ecuador + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rasse; Abstammung; Nationalismus; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Schülerverhalten; Lehrerverhalten; Rassenfrage; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Ausland; Teilnehmende Beobachtung
Abstract	In this article, using data collected primarily through interviews and observations the researcher explores how students and teachers of African descent at the Jaime Hurtado Academy understand and interpret race and racism in the city and province of Esmeraldas, which is the only region of the country where Afro-Ecuadorians comprise the largest proportion of the population. The findings reveal that students often distanced themselves from their Blackness through racial mixture, and that parents played a critical socializing role in their students' negotiations of racial identity. Additionally, it was found that teachers universally embraced their Blackness, although they simultaneously acknowledged their mixed racial ancestry. These findings contest literate understandings of race and ideological attempts by elites to exclude Afro-Ecuadorians within the dominant discourse of national identity. (Contains 2 tables, 1 figure and 13 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10