Solorzano Ceja And Yosso Analysis
Kate Kelley
Critical Review #2
Dr. LaGarrett King
28 June 2015
The article that we read this week that I found myself identifying the strongest with was Amy Bergerson’s (2003)– this is not surprising since she is also a White woman. Her writing asked some of the questions that I have only just begun to formulate in my own head. The question of authorship is central to her discussion: can a White person be a CRT scholar? Her answer appears to be ‘sort of’ in that she advocates for White scholars to employ CRT in their scholarship but I think she stops short of stating that White people can be Critical Race Theorists. In a nutshell, she seems to be saying that employing CRT as a critical framework through which to analyze race is fine, but …show more content…
I think stereotype threat is very real and is revealed in the example in my discussion above. Microagression, however, seems to be one way to understand the link between individual and structural racism, both the perpetration and experience of racism. In terms of structural racism I think the phrase itself might obscure an understanding of how structural racism works in the world of the everyday individual. Solorzano gives an example of a student who talks about feeling invisible in class not only in terms of the subject matter, but because a stereotype has systematically framed them as the type of person to whom the subject matter does not – for lack of a better word – belong. (Actually in terms of Whiteness as property this is the perfect word). This stereotyping will then, as the authors explain, cause the instructor to be less likely to call on that student. In this instance, the structure of a system based on White supremacy causes the student to experience the racist microagression performed by the instructor who has been informed by the stereotype that frames this particular
Critical Review #2
Dr. LaGarrett King
28 June 2015
The article that we read this week that I found myself identifying the strongest with was Amy Bergerson’s (2003)– this is not surprising since she is also a White woman. Her writing asked some of the questions that I have only just begun to formulate in my own head. The question of authorship is central to her discussion: can a White person be a CRT scholar? Her answer appears to be ‘sort of’ in that she advocates for White scholars to employ CRT in their scholarship but I think she stops short of stating that White people can be Critical Race Theorists. In a nutshell, she seems to be saying that employing CRT as a critical framework through which to analyze race is fine, but …show more content…
I think stereotype threat is very real and is revealed in the example in my discussion above. Microagression, however, seems to be one way to understand the link between individual and structural racism, both the perpetration and experience of racism. In terms of structural racism I think the phrase itself might obscure an understanding of how structural racism works in the world of the everyday individual. Solorzano gives an example of a student who talks about feeling invisible in class not only in terms of the subject matter, but because a stereotype has systematically framed them as the type of person to whom the subject matter does not – for lack of a better word – belong. (Actually in terms of Whiteness as property this is the perfect word). This stereotyping will then, as the authors explain, cause the instructor to be less likely to call on that student. In this instance, the structure of a system based on White supremacy causes the student to experience the racist microagression performed by the instructor who has been informed by the stereotype that frames this particular