Beyond the commonplace inequalities that many minoritized youth face in the United States, the post-Trump contemporary moment has created rampant racialized material and symbolic violence occurring against Latinx, immigrant and undocumented immigrant communities, Asian American, and African American populations. Race Frames in Education advances the conversation about racial equity in educational contexts with a unique analysis centered on the concept of racial projects—a way of thinking not only about systems of racial domination and subjugation, but also of resistance. Chapter authors center racial analyses across multiple educational and community-based settings to underscore how racial projects advance equity or reproduce inequality. This much-needed anthology addresses a pressing issue in society: how to center race and expose systemic racism in order to transform communities, schooling, and educational policies. It challenges White dominance in education and social policy and practice in order to understand the material effects of race, racism, and White supremacist logic on minoritized populations.
Book Features:
- Narratives that center the voices and grassroots-level resistance of underrepresented groups.
- An examination of anti-immigrant policies and surveillance into communities that perpetuate the school to prison/deportation pipeline.
- Empirical studies grounded in race frames, demonstrating the impact of race, systemic racism, Whiteness, racialization, racial ideology, and dynamics on youth.
- An underscoring of the interdisciplinary research, especially sociological and educational studies, that center racial analysis, equity, and advocacy efforts.
- Contents
- Foreword Theo van Leeuwen xi
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction 1
- PART I: FOUNDATIONS
- 1. Conceptualizing Visual and Multimodal Phenomena 17
- 2. Theoretical Foundations of Multimodal Research 32
- PART II: ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORKS: TEXTS AND OBJECTS
- 3. Iconographical Analysis 51
- 4. Visual Discourse Analysis 58
- 5. Visual Rhetorical Analysis 65
- 6. Multimodal Framing Analysis 71
- 7. Multimodal Content Analysis 78
- 8. Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis 86
- 9. Multimodal Genre Analysis 93
- Research Vignettes: Texts and Objects 99
- Research Vignette 1: Young Children's Multimodal Compositions 99
- Lindsey Moses
- Research Vignette 2: Multimodal Content of Magazine Covers 102
- Stephanie F. Reid, Danielle Kachorsky, and Kathryn P. Chapman
- Research Vignette 3: Critical Visual Discourse Analysis of 3-D Sculpture 107
- Peggy Albers
- Research Vignette 4: Multimodal Content Analysis of Wine Labels 110
- Frank Serafini
- Research Vignette 5: Examining Wordless Picture Books 115
- Evelyn Arizpe and Julie E. McAdam
- Research Vignette 6: A Critical Multimodal Comparison of Animation Software 118
- Emilia Djonov
- Research Vignette 7: Multimodality and Orientation-to-Action in Video Games 122
- Jeffrey B. Holmes, Earl Aguilera, and Kelly M. Tran
- Research Vignette 8: Animated Movie Adaptations of Literary Picture Books 125
- Len Unsworth
- PART III: ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORKS: EVENTS AND SPACES
- 10. Social Semiotic Multimodal Analysis 133
- 11. Critical Multimodal Analysis 140
- 12. Mediated Discourse (Interactional) Analysis 147
- 13. Multimodal Ethnographic Analysis 153
- 14. Spatial Discourse Analysis 160
- 15. Multimodal Cultural Analysis 166
- 16. Digitally Based Multimodal Analysis 173
- Research Vignettes: Events and Spaces 180
- Research Vignette 9: Mapping (Visual) Identities During COVID-19 180
- Jennifer Rowsell
- Research Vignette 10: Critical Multimodal Analysis of Voting Spaces 183
- Marva Cappello
- Research Vignette 11: Multimodal Interaction Analysis of Social Positioning in Young Children at School 187
- Katie Bernstein
- Research Vignette 12: Understanding Spatial Pedagogy 190
- Fei Victor Lim
- Research Vignette 13: Collective Multimodal Research of Social Interaction in the COVID-19 Pandemic 194
- Elisabetta Adami
- Research Vignette 14: Analyzing Children's Virtual Realities 197
- Kathy A. Mills and Lesley Friend
- Research Vignette 15: A Multimodal Analysis of Children's Play 201
- Kate Cowan and John Potter
- Research Vignette 16: Spatial Discourse Analysis of Informal
- Outdoor Learning Spaces 204
- Louise Ravelli
- Epilogue: Looking Back, Moving Forward 209
- References 215
- Index 235
- About the Author and the Contributors 245
"In Race Frames, the contributors frame units of analysis as racial projects to cut through the best intentions of equity-driven policies and practices, and observe how they often implicitly reproduce racialized/ing inequality. … (The book) is particularly timely in this way, as equity language has become increasingly hegemonic in education and susceptible to being appropriated to justify policies, pedagogies, and forms of care that harm racially marginalized youth."—Teachers College Record
"This is an excellent book that can be a resource for readers of all educational levels interested in racial issues in US education."—CHOICE
