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This country music singer is the Godmother of Miley Cyrus.
Who is Dolly Parton?
This is one of the unique techniques Yep used to guide her students towards effective communication. (Name one)
What is
-separate discussions with individual students outside the classroom
-unique learning activities (a group with a listener, leader and speaker) (interactive writing activities) (think, pair, share type activities)
-discussing group consensus over appropriate classroom behavior
-roaming among small group discussion to assess conversation and remind
students of the learning agreements previously discussed
Yosso begins by outlining this currently debated theoretical framework.
What is Critical Race Theory?
Settler Colonialism relies on these three practices (Name one).
What is
-the seizure of land, resources, and cultural practices
-the erasure of Indigeneity
-the theft of labor
This Virginia Tech mascot debuted in 1981.
What is the Hokie?
This song is Brittany Spears' biggest hit.
What is "Baby One More Time."
Yep guided a class which created interaction between college students and these students.
What is a local juvenile detention center high school.
Yosso introduces this concept, defined as “an array of knowledge, skills, abilities and contacts possessed and utilized by Communities of Color to survive and resist macro and micro-forms of oppression.” p. 77
What is community cultural wealth.
Patel's work recognizes the intertwined nature of these two elements, suggesting that we name racism in higher education, and identify Settler Colonialism as an ongoing structure that harms and creates barriers for marginalized populations.
What are study and struggle?
This song, written and recorded by the heavy metal band Metallica, has been played in Lane Stadium since 2000 as the football team enters the field. The tradition of students jumping up and down during the song started on December 1, 2001, when a Marching Virginians band member started jumping during the song and was joined by his colleagues.
What is "Enter Sandman"
This is the longest running game show in TV history.
What is The Price is Right.
Yep encouraged students to develop an understanding of these systems (Name one).
What are patriarchy, heteronormativity, White Privilege, and interlocking systems of oppression.
Critical Race Theory was initially critiqued for its focus on Civil Rights Legislation and this way of thinking. Branches of CRT (FemCrit, LatCrit, AsianCrit, etc.) have responded to this criticism, offering a critique beyond this way of thinking.
What is Black/White Binary thinking.
Patel identifies that this structure has always been part of the settler colonial structure of this nation, and states that marginalized populations have never stopped learning, a form of study that has been essential to the struggle to gain access to further study.
What is education?
Virginia Tech is one of three public universities in the country with both civilian lifestyles and this lifestyle, which was originally required for male students.
What is the corp of cadets?
This is the name of Taylor Swift's first hit single.
What is "Tim McGraw."
Yep says that linking classroom dynamics to the larger political context is important, because racial formations, patriarchy, heteronormativity, and poverty are intersecting social processes that manifest themselves in the {what} and in community partnerships.
What is the classroom?
Yosso critiques Bourdieu’s ideas that this capital can only be obtained through family or formal education, and the idea that some students can be culturally wealthy while others are culturally poor.
What is cultural capital.
Patel echoes Yasso in the need to stop viewing BIPOC students as having this, and needing to listen to and integrate the experiences and unique knowledge of Communities of Color, as Colonialism also reinforces ideas of what is considered valuable in higher education.
What is a deficit?
At least 15 of these at Virginia Tech fit right into our neo-Gothic architecture. And for some students, finding every one of them before graduation is a rite of passage. Some of them serve as waterspouts while others are simply decoration.
What are gargoyles?
This actress had roles in both Mean Girls and The Notebook in 2004.
Who is Rachel McAdams.
Yep believes it is just as important to learn to process this as it is to analyze and reflect on social issues.
What is conflict.
Yosso highlights these six forms of capital nurtured uniquely in Communities of Color (name one).
What are aspirational capital, linguistic capital, familial capital, social capital, navigational capital, and resistant capital?
Patel states ”...no one analytic can adequately and consistently encompass the varied and shifting forms of oppression…[this frame of thinking] allows for and demands a broader understanding of how racism, property accumulation, erasure, and gender binaries are used to maintain extractive power dynamics in education…”
What is Settler Colonialism?
This man laid the foundations for modern-day Virginia Tech in the 1890s, including the development of B.S. degrees and graduate study, granting permanent status for the Corps of Cadets, and starting the athletics program. Him and his son also developed the university’s motto: Ut Prosim (That I May Serve).
Who is John McBryde.