PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Vasquez Heilig, Julian
AU  - Brown, Keffrelyn
AU  - Brown, Anthony
TI  - The Illusion of Inclusion: A Critical Race Theory Textual Analysis of Race and Standards
AID  - 10.17763/haer.82.3.84p8228670j24650
DP  - 2012 Sep 01
TA  - Harvard Educational Review
PG  - 403--424
VI  - 82
IP  - 3
4099  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/82/3/403.short
4100  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/82/3/403.full
SO  - herp2012 Sep 01; 82
AB  - In this article, Julian Vasquez Heilig, Keffrelyn Brown, and Anthony Brown offer findings from a close textual analysis of how the Texas social studies standards address race, racism, and communities of color. Using the lens of critical race theory, the authors uncover the sometimes subtle ways that the standards can appear to adequately address race while at the same time marginalizing it—the “illusion of inclusion.” Their study offers insight into the mechanisms of marginalization in standards and a model of how to closely analyze such standards, which, the authors argue, is increasingly important as the standards and accountability movements continue to grow in influence.