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Item Anti-Mexican Violence, Race, and the Myth of Color-Blindness(2021) Blas, Jacob D.; Vásquez, AntonioRace and color-blindness have been examined in Mexican American and Latina/o Studies scholarship to explain the United States’ use of power through white supremacy to enact anti-Mexican violence. Anglo Americans have utilized laws, rhetorical strategies, and the manipulation of whiteness to yield fear and xenophobia, exacerbating negative stereotypes of Mexicans and Mexican Americans (e.g., “illegal,” gang members, drug dealers, rapists, criminals, dirty, diseased, mongrel). These attitudes continue to intensify under neoliberal, center, and right-wing U.S. politics and policing to characterize communities of color and immigrants as the “problem.” Neoliberal and liberal politics that use the concept of “color-blindness” do equal harm by erasing histories and ongoing experiences of white supremacy and colonial domination. The purpose of this study is to highlight how the formation of race, which is intrinsically tied to class and gender, is utilized as a mechanism for anti-Mexican violence in historical and contemporary contexts. I also intend to draw connections between this historical legacy and the contemporary period through a discussion about color-blindness and the dangers of white individualism. An examination of white supremacy, and its manifestation throughout U.S. institutions, is critical to understanding these issues because it allows us to critique the systems of power that continue to dominate the bodies of people of color. Racial hierarchies will continue to be reinforced if whiteness dominates U.S. society, academia, and the political apparatus. If we continue to ignore this history and the ongoing subjection, anti-Mexican violence – a critical facet of nation building – will continue unchallenged.Item At the mouth of my grave while tending my garden : fear of death and hope for life in Black Women's conversations about reproductive and maternal health(2023-04-20) Woods Bennett, Joy Melody; Donovan-Kicken, Erin E.; Ballard, Dawna; Nash, Jennifer C.; Treem, JeffreyBlack women are dying at higher rates that their white counterparts during childbirth. They are also facing more severe symptoms when diagnosed with endometriosis, fibroids, or other gynecological health issues. The purpose of this study is to investigate the ways in which Black women are discussing amongst themselves their reproductive and maternal health—their decisions, diagnoses, and overall conversations. The following dissertation combines auto ethnographic and qualitative interviews to investigate communicative practices utilized by Black women in their personal conversations. By rooting this investigation in Critical Race Theory, Endarkened Feminist Epistemology, and temporality, I can illuminate how Black women navigate through racists medical systems to seek holistic and safe reproductive and maternal healthcare. This study also highlighted how Black women lean on each other, their faith, and hope to continue to yearn for motherhood despite the devastating numbers of mortality that they face. Also, this dissertation revealed that Black women consider multiple things a part of their reproductive health decision making police brutality, historic racist experimentation, their spirituality, time and temporality, and much more.Item Austin School Manifesto: An Approach to the Black or African Diaspora(Cultural Dynamics, Vol. 19, No. 1, 93-97, 2006) Gordon, Edmund T.;Item The Critical Race Theory Boogeyman(2021-09-24) Gearing, ChristopherItem Gifted, bilingual, Mexican/Mexican-American students : using community cultural wealth as a strategy for negotiating paradoxes(2013-08) Beam-Conroy, Teddi Michele; Fránquiz, María E.This qualitative dissertation study examined the ways that nine gifted, bilingual Mexican/Mexican-American students negotiated paradoxes in their academic, linguistic, and cultural identities in a public high school in a large, south central Texas city. One theoretical lens, Critical Race Theory/Latino Critical Race Theory (CRT/LatCrit) was combined with phenomenological research methods to privilege the students' perspectives during the data collection process. An additional theoretical lens, the concept of Figured Worlds, was used to contextualize the setting, Chase High School. Both CRT/LatCrit and Figured Worlds were used to analyze interview, classroom and field observation, participant, school, and district artifacts, federal, state and local data collected over ten months of study. The investigation revealed that the participants braided the domains of community cultural wealth -- aspirational, navigational, linguistic, social, resistance, and familial capital -- into practices that grounded them in their bilingual, bicultural Mexican/Mexican-American identities as successful students.Item Navigating a convergence of influences: athletic and academic identities of Black middle school club basketball players(2015-08) Smith, Martin P.; Harrison, Louis, 1955-; Urrieta, Luis; Moore, Leonard; Brown, Anthony; De Lissovoy, NoahHistorically and contemporarily the Black male experience has stimulated and provoked meaningful discussions in the realms of sport and academia. Black males are uniquely situated in American society, as they inhabit a liminal existence that oscillates between love and hate. Ladson-Billings (2011) expounds that Black boys are loved in the narrow niches of sport but are often abhorred in academic settings. The majority of research on the athletic and academic identities of Black student-athletes is conducted at the collegiate level in the revenue sports of basketball and football, and the research asserts that the collegiate sport atmosphere renders the two identities as mutually exclusive (Edwards, 1984; Harrison et al., 2011; Singer, 2008). There are studies occurring at the middle school level; however, these studies combine all male athletes into one group and do not distinguish the research participants according to their specific sport participation or racial background (Alfone, 2013; Fuller, Percy, & Bruening, 2013; Gorton, 2010). The few studies that distinguish between race and sport participation are somewhat dated (Mahiri, 1991, 1998; Nasir, 2000, 2008). This study addresses a gap in the literature by focusing solely on elite Black male middle school student-athletes to discover what leads to the seemingly incompatible athletic and academic identities that surface during college. I employed an instrumental case study grounded in Critical Race Theory which investigated and examined the experiences and perspectives of seven elite Black middle school club basketball players. Themes were generated by coding the interview data of all relevant stakeholders such as coaches, players, and parents as well as a thorough analysis of field notes, artifacts, and focus group data. Five themes emerged from the data, Academic Recognition, Athletic Recognition, Career, Racial Expectations, & Time Devoted to Sport and Intellectual Endeavors. This study is significant because it contextualizes the racial, athletic and academic climate of Black male athletes at a crucial time in their identity development. It contributes to the current literature by providing insight and furnishing essential information for parents, coaches and educators in order to bolster and enhance the academic identity and attainment of young Black male basketball players.Item Phenomenological study on the racialized experiences of African American assistant collegiate football coaches(2018-06-27) Howe, Jonathan Emmanuel; Hunt, Thomas M.; Kelly, Darren DavidThe dearth of African American football coaches at the collegiate FBS level is evident solely with an eye test. When looking at the numbers, there are only 13 Black head football coaches out of 128 jobs. Additionally, African American coaches represent less than 30% of assistant coaches (Lapchick, Marfatia, Bloom, & Slyverain, 2017). These numbers are shocking especially when considering the amount of coaching positions available at the conclusion of every season. While there have been a number of scholars researching the lack of head football coaches at the collegiate level, not much focus has been placed on the assistant coaches and not enough emphasis has been placed on studies of qualitative nature. The purpose of this study was to analyze and then gain an understanding of the experiences of Black assistant football coaches at the FBS level. This study utilized a Critical Race Theory framework in order to examine the intersectionality of race and sport to provide an understanding in regards to the dearth of African American assistant football coaches and their path, or lack thereof, to becoming head coaches at the collegiate level.Item Prison Reform and Redemption for Whom?(Texas Education Review, 2018) Wolcott, Jennifer MdurvwaItem Writing with Your Family at the Kitchen Table: Balancing Home and Academic Communities(2016) Epps-Robertson, Candace