Reading about Geography and Race in the Rural Rustbelt: Mobilizing Dis/affiliation as a Practice of Whiteness
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2021
Keywords
Rural, Rustbelt, Literacy, Geography, Race, Mediated discourse analysis
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2021.100955
Abstract
This paper examines what happens when White women elementary school teachers read and discuss negative media focused on the community in which they live and work during a time of heightened geographic and racial divisions in the United States following the election of President Trump. This mediated discourse analysis, drawn from a broader postcritical ethnographic study, explores the implications of geography and race when teachers discuss media specifically about the place in which they live and/or work. Findings indicate that emotion and discursive practices of Whiteness are mobilized through dis/affiliation when mediated by such texts.
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Linguistics and Education, v. 65, art. 100955
Scholar Commons Citation
Panos, Alexandra, "Reading about Geography and Race in the Rural Rustbelt: Mobilizing Dis/affiliation as a Practice of Whiteness" (2021). Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications. 693.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tal_facpub/693
