| Title | Positioning and Positioned Apart: Mathematics Learning as Becoming Undesirable |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2021 |
| Authors | Sengupta-Irving, Tesha |
| Journal | Anthropology & Education Quarterly |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pagination | 187-208 |
| ISSN | 1548-1492 |
| Abstract | Neoliberal logics, a form of racial capitalism, adjudicate children as smart, able, and desirable (or not) in schools. I explore the social processes and structural arrangements by which such logics position a Latina mathematics student as “undesirable” in her class. Drawing on data collected over a year, the analysis lays bare how undesirability is both a requirement of neoliberalism and an emergent position that she, her low-track class, and her school come to occupy. |
| URL | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aeq.12378 |
| DOI | 10.1111/aeq.12378 |
| Short Title | Positioning and Positioned Apart |