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“We Didn't Have Courage”: Internalizing Racism and the Limits of Participatory Action Research
Author(s) -
Lucko Jennifer
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12254
Subject(s) - racism , courage , sociology , civic engagement , participatory action research , citizen journalism , action (physics) , action research , pedagogy , gender studies , political science , law , politics , anthropology , physics , quantum mechanics
This article follows a group of Latino/a English language learners conducting Participatory Action Research in a segregated school. I examine how students’ perspectives on civic engagement shifted after they joined an after‐school initiative that brought them together with students from a private Jewish day school located directly across the street. Even as students formed new perspectives on civic engagement throughout the year, internalized racism framed how they understood their capacity for civic action.