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Student Voice as Agency: Resistance and Accommodation in Inner‐City Schools
Author(s) -
Mirón Louis F.,
Lauria Mickey
Publication year - 1998
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 - 10.1525/aeq.1998.29.2.189
Subject(s) - ethnic group , resistance (ecology) , white (mutation) , accommodation , identity (music) , sociology , agency (philosophy) , population , hegemony , gender studies , inner city , politics , criminology , political science , psychology , demography , socioeconomics , social science , anthropology , law , ecology , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , neuroscience , gene , acoustics , biology
In this article we describe the results of a comparative case study of two inner‐city high schools located in the southeastern United States. One school, a citywide school with high admission standards, enrolls an all‐African American lower‐to‐middle‐class population. The other school enrolls a more ethnically and racially diverse population of students from a single lower‐class neighborhood. Using Grossberg's notion of identity politics, we describe how students' racial/ ethnic identity to a greater or lesser degree becomes both a means of resistance and accommodation to white hegemony.