Equity Trap #2: Racial Erasure
{"Image DocumentName": "Equity Trap #2: Racial Erasure", "Image ImageDescription": "From bell hooks (1992) the sentimental idea that racism would cease to exist if everyone would just forget about race and see each other as human beings who are the same (p.12) By refusing to see color, and by prioritizing other factors like poverty- over race, we can deny our own racism. McKenzie and Scheurich claim that the teachers in their study by ignoring race, by erasing race the racial marker of their students, they were able to deny that there was any possibility that they treated their students differently based upon their student\u2019s skin color. Rather than erase race as an issue, educators need to focus on how schools are and can systematically produce inequities by race and how to dissolve them in a positive way requires collective study by all staff.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}