{"id":1287,"date":"2023-01-29T16:27:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T21:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2023-01-29T16:27:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T21:27:55","slug":"toonder-response-to-savannah-shanges-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/2023\/01\/toonder-response-to-savannah-shanges-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Toonder Response to Savannah Shange&#8217;s work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I found the author\u2019s exploration of how political elements pervade and define classroom interactions fascinating. The relationship between race, academic success, economic mobility, and rates of mass incarceration per certain demographics is shocking and something Shange traces back to \u201cenrollment into an educational system designed to depoliticize Black rage and criminalize Black joy\u201d (55). I found striking the author\u2019s discussion of Sophia\u2019s work on the \u201c&#8217;progressive\u201d side of the paradox of carceral progressivism. Her consistent, successful, efforts to dislodge anti-blackness in the provision of Spanish-language curriculum mark her practice as a win for antiracist reform\u201d (47). By focusing on examples of \u201cBlack-Latin coalition, unmediated by the whiteness of standard american english\u201d as seen in a classroom, she proposes a unique and focused research topic designed to comment on what Damian Sojoyner argues is the \u201c\u2018first strike\u201d against Black children;\u201d something not during arrest, but in the seemingly innocent school system (55).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The author also described her process of selecting pseudonyms so as to respect Black naming traditions while maintaining some anonymity for the people she observes. Through her analysis of tracing name genres and adjusting the number of syllables, she notes her own \u201cconvoluted relationship with Black autonomy\u201d because she, in fact, decided not to use the participants\u2019 chosen pseudonyms and instead decided that many were \u201ctoo obvious (John wanted Johnnie), too fantastic (Keenan wanted Escobar), or playfully racially recoded in ways that exceeded by ability to reconcile them (Chaniqua wanted Becky)\u201d (49). She ultimately decided to use the Spanish names chosen by the informants as a means of avoiding the \u201cviolence\u201d associated with \u201creplac[ing] these tiny, accented sincerities\u201d (50). <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found the author\u2019s exploration of how political elements pervade and define classroom interactions fascinating. The relationship between race, academic success, economic mobility, and rates of mass incarceration per certain demographics is shocking and something Shange traces back to \u201cenrollment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/2023\/01\/toonder-response-to-savannah-shanges-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}