Contemporary right-wing politics elevate performativity and white supremacy in schools

Evidence

Freire’s arguments have never been so poignant. With the rise of neoliberal policies elevating concepts of “performativity” (Day & Gu, 2007) and competition to “reform” all parts of the public sector including schools (Anderson & Cohen, 2015, 2018), and, under the Trump Administration, the elevation of white supremacy Coates (2017), xenophobia (Rosa & Bonilla, 2017), and other forms of discrimination in civil society—Freire would have called for resistance of these oppressive forces. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 922

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes ch12’s earlier theme of teacher fabricating performances under accountability and its critique of current culture. — connects to: Elite equivocation on white supremacy enables violent right-wing action — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 221; Southern Strategy repositioned white supremacy as mainstream politics — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 186; Modern conservatism abandoned explicit white supremacy for color-blind individualism — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 299 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern conservatism abandoned explicit white supremacy for color-blind individualism #qualifies (0.85) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 299
• Genteel racism made modern conservatism’s racist undertones politically viable #expands (0.85) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 490
• Southern Strategy repositioned white supremacy as mainstream politics #expands (0.82) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 186
• Elite equivocation on white supremacy enables violent right-wing action #complicates (0.75) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 221
• White supremacy operates as an idea undergirding Western social structure #expands (0.72) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1151
• Racial ideology in America concealed class divisions among whites #expands (0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 409