Not exact matches
The team sought to share and understand their own experiences with
racial inequity in education, reflect on the perspectives of students of color who experience a lack of diversity
within their teacher community, and research a range of factors that contribute to the gap, from teacher recruitment through school climate.
Losen has done pioneering work on issues of unequal treatment
within schools, including the widely cited book,
Racial Inequity in Special Education (Losen & Orfield, 2002), and on dropouts.
Given the ongoing
racial and socioeconomic
inequities that have been documented in access to AP classes and exams, AP participation, and AP performance, these three categories serve as excellent metrics for measuring
racial and ethnic inequalities
within a particular school system.
In many respects this event — part of a series of responses to police brutality, corruption, and racist policies aimed at undermining the rights of Britain's black population — was the first of its kind to unfold
within the context of the BBC's nightly news.1 At an early moment in British television history, over the course of three days in April 1981, audiences were routinely exposed to images of dissenting blackness through the mediating lens of mainstream journalism; these images became inextricably linked to a series of representational codes that further underscored aspects of British society that had inherited and internalized systematic
racial inequities.
Seen
within the context of his images of black men, the inclusion in a diptych of a distorted mug shot of convicted white sex offender Brock Turner — the former Stanford University student who was only sentenced to six months in confinement for raping an unconscious young woman — stands as a poignant testimony to ongoing
racial inequity.