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Cinco de Mayo, Normative Whiteness, and the Marginalization of Mexican‐Descent Students
Author(s) -
Hurd Clayton A.
Publication year - 2008
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/j.1548-1492.2008.00023.x
Subject(s) - normative , mexican americans , sociology , white (mutation) , african descent , identity (music) , gender studies , descent (aeronautics) , ethnic group , cultural conflict , social psychology , psychology , anthropology , political science , aesthetics , law , geography , art , biochemistry , chemistry , meteorology , gene
This case study is concerned with how institutional practices of normative whiteness can impede the school involvement of Mexican‐descent students. It examines how damaging forms of white normativity can operate in school settings where one might least expect to find them: in commemorations of Mexican cultural holidays. The author shows how such commemorations can have the paradoxical effect of marginalizing Mexican‐descent students and discouraging their involvement in a range of school activities. [Mexican American, whiteness, cultural conflict, cultural celebrations, belonging, identity formation]