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Racialised Discourses of Educational Opportunity: Neoliberal Education Reform and Community Resistance in Bronzeville, Chicago

Sandeman, Lauren K
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8004-733X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami161909471708297

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2021, Master of Arts, Miami University, Geography.
Neoliberalism has dramatically altered the landscape of urban education, in which public education is increasingly governed by private operators and market logics, facilitating the closing of 'failing' public schools and implicating education reform in broader processes of neoliberal urbanism. In 2004, Chicago's Board of Education launched 'Renaissance 2010' (Ren2010), a neoliberal reform which intended to revitalise the city's public schools, yet resulted in the disproportionate closure of neighbourhood schools in African American communities. This thesis employs Critical Discourse Analysis guided by Critical Race Theory to examine the dominant and counter discourses of Ren2010, by identifying how changes to educational opportunities are differentially framed and characterised by key stakeholder groups, prioritising the lived experiences and counter-stories of the African American community of Bronzeville. This research reveals how the Bronzeville community successfully disrupted neoliberal education reform and recontextualised the dominant discourse by invoking narratives of spatialised inequality and framing school closings as a racialised attack on the community. Critically, through the expansion of their spaces of engagement, the community rescaled the politics of Renaissance 2010 and situated the local injustice of an historic African American community in the national conversation on the fight for educational justice.
Damon Scott, PhD (Advisor)
Marcia England, PhD (Committee Member)
Denise Taliaferro Baszile, PhD (Committee Member)
105 p.
Education; Geography
Neoliberalism; Education Reform; School Closure; Community Resistance; Critical Discourse Analysis; Chicago

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  • Sandeman, L. K. (2021). Racialised Discourses of Educational Opportunity: Neoliberal Education Reform and Community Resistance in Bronzeville, Chicago [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami161909471708297

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sandeman, Lauren. Racialised Discourses of Educational Opportunity: Neoliberal Education Reform and Community Resistance in Bronzeville, Chicago. 2021. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami161909471708297.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sandeman, Lauren. "Racialised Discourses of Educational Opportunity: Neoliberal Education Reform and Community Resistance in Bronzeville, Chicago." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami161909471708297

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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