“Are We Not What We Seem?”: Infrapolitical Maneuvers in the Era of College and Career Readiness

This article explores the ways in which social scaffolding and cultural brokering processes within educational spaces engender ideological tensions among predominantly Latinx youth participants and educators within a college and career readiness organization. Based upon data from an 18‐month ethnogr...

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Published in:Anthropology & education quarterly 2020-09, Vol.51 (3), p.322-340
Main Author: Abad, Miguel N.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic readiness
Career Readiness
Careers
Citizenship
college and career readiness
College Readiness
Correlation
Criticism
Cultural Influences
Ethnography
Hispanic American Students
Hispanic students
Ideology
infrapolitics
Negotiation
Occupations
Organizations (Groups)
Political Attitudes
race
respectability
Scaffolding
Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Social Influences
social scaffolding
Student Attitudes
Teacher Attitudes
Youth
youth resistance
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Summary:This article explores the ways in which social scaffolding and cultural brokering processes within educational spaces engender ideological tensions among predominantly Latinx youth participants and educators within a college and career readiness organization. Based upon data from an 18‐month ethnography, they engaged in forms of resistance through infrapolitics. Youth and educators simultaneously critiqued and negotiated the contradictions that emerge from engaging with the symbolic demands associated with respectability and citizenship within the United States.
ISSN:0161-7761
1548-1492
DOI:10.1111/aeq.12341