Racialised communication met with silence in the classroom

Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 14:42 in Psychology & Sociology

A new article in the journal Communication, Culture and Critique illustrates the ways some college students bear the costs of silence-mediated racialised communication in their everyday classroom activities. Specifically, the essay shows that White privilege enables racially laden communication that regenerates, albeit unintentionally, the social exclusion of American Indian students. Moreover, as the essay argues, this exclusion results not only in myriad unearned stresses for American Indian students but sometimes also in their ultimately abandoning their academic objectives...

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