Wiebke Scharathow’s study reconstructs what everyday experiences of racism mean for young people. Based on the perspectives of students, the mechanisms through which racism becomes effective and the underlying social conditions are worked out. It also points out the hurdles faced by young people affected by racism, the challenges they face within existing relations of domination, and the spaces for action they create for themselves.
School as an everyday place and carrier of racist practices and structures is the focus of the study: common teaching practices, mechanisms of exclusion, teaching content, knowledge production and personnel structures are examined.
Finally, the book discusses what measures can be taken to establish a pedagogical practice that is critical of racism.
A reflection of the own position by teachers within the existing social order and their critical questioning of powerful (invisible) structures and own presuppositions play a key role.
Wiebke Scharathow 2014: Risks of Resistance. Young people and their experiences of racism. Bielefeld: transcript.
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