Building Consensus during Racially Divisive Times: Parents Speak Out about the Twin Pandemics of COVID-19 and Systemic Racism

Wendy Luttrell (), Mieasia Edwards and José Jiménez
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Wendy Luttrell: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA
Mieasia Edwards: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA
José Jiménez: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA

Social Sciences, 2022, vol. 11, issue 10, 1-15

Abstract: This paper utilizes narrative inquiry to examine the effect of COVID-19 on political resistance, focusing on education as a key site. Based on survey and interview data the paper considers parents’ perspectives about the impacts of COVID-19 and racial inequalities in their children’s schooling. Two narrative types are constructed and analyzed: consensus narratives and parenting narratives that refute an overarching, manufactured political narrative in the United States of “divisiveness” about race and education, while also identifying the layers and complexities of individual parents’ everyday lives raising and educating children.

Keywords: parenting narratives; consensus narratives; race; racism and education; everyday life in schools (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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