Hernández, Ebelia. "Utilizing Critical Race Theory To Examine Race/Ethnicity, Racism, And Power In Student Development Theory And Research." Journal Of College Student Development 57.2 (2016): 168. Publisher Provided Full Text Searching File. Web. 10 Oct. 2016.
For my next journal entry, I looked into how an internal division could happen within a racial group during student activism activities. The question I am posing is "What can the division within a racial group tell us about the way a race goes about student activist activities ad the tensions it may cause?" This article is from a Latina point of view but it goes along with the African American movements I am studying through concerned student 1950.
In this article, the author explores the critical race theory while also researching the effects of race, privilege, and power. The author introduces the five themes of CRT which are the centrality of race and racism and their intersection with other forms of subordination, the challenge to the dominant ideology, the commitment to social justice, the centrality of experimental knowledge, and the interdisciplinary perspective. The first question that came to mind for me is what roles might these roles play in student activism? Self-authorship is another concept that is discussed. Self-authorship is broken down into three dimensions, cognitive (how we know or decide what to believe), intrapersonal (how we view ourselves), and interpersonal (how we construct relationships with others). Throughout the article, the author discusses the research that she did that included different women from a latina background to get a deeper look into these concepts. She takes the readers through different questions that some may ask themselves while developing who they are and where they stand on political issues. The first question was "How do I make meaning of my Social World," this questions "recognizes how social identity provides different experiences and perspectives based on the position of privilege or marginalization." She found that in this research it is important to give the minority a voice to speak up about their run-ins with racism to be able to understand how racism is manifested in the American educational system. It is also noted that the underrepresentation of their race at their school causes personal and political consequences of extreme marginalization. The second question was "How does my social world shape my sense of self as a radicalized being," this question "allows for the study of ethnic identity development and the developmental processes of identifying how social norms may affect sense of self, as well as how individuals manage their public selves in changing contexts while maintaining a stable, internalized cultural identity." In this research, she discovered how the way we might identify ourselves depends on our environment and the people we are around. This could be because of the stereotypes we are trying to avoid dealing with certain people or so we're not shunned or judged by people of our same race for not identifying the way they want to. And the last question addressed was "What relationship do I want with others for the benefit of my social world," this questions allows for "investigation of developmental processes wherein an individual recognizes her role as a political actor who seeks to forge effective coalitions, represents an entity's agenda and make decisions that affect group members." This research shows how that while some activism has a personal connection to their own values and beliefs, the political relationship can be different from intimate relationships in their lives and they have to develop an understanding of group dynamics, institutional policy, and campus climate. The author ends by defining interest convergence which is "White elites tolerating or encouraging racial advances for Blacks or other oppressed groups only when such advances also promote white self-interest."
This article made me think a lot about the concept of moderate blackness and how sometimes African American males choose to make themselves more relatable to white people. It makes me want to look deeper into this concept and how it affects student activism as well as how it might affect the internal division within the racial groups as well.
This journal speaks to my first source because some minority students might use some of these questions to avoid the structural violence they are going to experience. By getting in tune with the majority it can boost their social status on campus and help them to not experience the micro aggressions as much as one might without the close relationship with a white person. It might make them see themselves as a "minority with white tendencies" that can cause minority groups to exclude them and look at them differently.
This journal speaks to my first source because some minority students might use some of these questions to avoid the structural violence they are going to experience. By getting in tune with the majority it can boost their social status on campus and help them to not experience the micro aggressions as much as one might without the close relationship with a white person. It might make them see themselves as a "minority with white tendencies" that can cause minority groups to exclude them and look at them differently.
For the next part of my research I will look into moderate blackness and the affect it can have on student activism.
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