"Ballet It's Too Whitey": Discursive Hierarchies of High School Dance Spaces and the Constitution of Embodied Feminine Subjectivities

Autor/inn/en	Atencio, Matthew; Wright, Jan
Titel	"Ballet It's Too Whitey": Discursive Hierarchies of High School Dance Spaces and the Constitution of Embodied Feminine Subjectivities
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 21 (2009) 1, S.31-46 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
Schlagwörter	High Schools; Racial Bias; Social Attitudes; Feminism; Females; Educational Environment; Social Class; Sexual Identity; Dance Education; High School Students; African American Students; Racial Factors; Gender Issues; Human Body; Social Status; Low Income Groups; Body Composition + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; Oberschule; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Feminismus; Weibliches Geschlecht; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Dance; Education; Tanzerziehung; High schools; Student; Students; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; African Americans; Afroamerikaner; Geschlechterfrage; Menschlicher Körper; Sozialer Status
Abstract	This article investigates (i) how the structuring practices and meanings associated with dance classes at an inner-city American high school operated as institutional spaces (re)producing "dividing practices" that supported racial and classed hierarchies; (ii) how these racist structures were created and maintained relative to dominant notions of embodiment, "race", social class, femininity, and dance; and (iii) the way these dominant practices and hierarchies were managed by two "black" young women at the high school in order to construct particular modes of self-governance. The analysis suggests that educators be attuned to the role that spaces play in creating particular types of "docile" bodies and the strategies enacted by young people to create alternative embodied practices and subjectivities. (Contains 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10