E/raced : aboriginal youth identities and schooling

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Date
2009Author
Desmoulins, Leisa A.
Subject
Indigenous PeoplesEducation
Indians of North America
Native Peoples
Racism in Education
High School Students
Native Students
Indian Students
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This qualitative study investigates Aboriginal high school students' negotiation of identity and identifying with school and community in relation to other representations. Within the literature, cultural and racial discourses provide contrasting, essentialized theories for Aboriginal students' lack of schooling succes. Each of these discourses has conceptual limitations. Alternative conceptualizations illuminate diverse representations, engage complex articulations of identity, culture, class, and race with racialized students' agency and negotation of/engagement with/ and alienation from schooling as performative identity.