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"Waiting for Superman" to Save Black People: Racial Representation and the Official Antiracism of Neoliberal School Reform
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Dumas, Michael J. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2013
The author argues that the documentary, "Waiting for Superman," effectively employs bodies and texts in ways that reproduce hegemonic constructions of race, and more specifically, offers an image and imagination of black engagement in education that reinforces neoliberal-multicultural narratives about black disinterest in, and…
Descriptors: Documentaries, Educational Policy, Discourse Analysis, Cultural Pluralism