The usual suspect: Negotiating white student resistance and teacher authority in a predominantly white classroom

Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 483-508

  Rodriguez, Dalia ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoethnography; Critical pedagogy; Critical race theory; Race in the classroom; White student resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349136680     PISSN: 15327086     EISSN: 1552356X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532708608321504     Document Type: Article

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