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Two kindergarteners are squabbling at their desk when the teacher comes over. One of them says to the teacher, “It’s not fair, she took all the red ones!” In a teacher education course, in discussing that while “race” is not a biological category, it is still important to collect data using racial categories so we can recognize where social injustices exist. A student argues that collecting and using this data only further perpetuates social stereotypes, and is thus a poor strategy.
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Meier, D., Meier, N. (2012). Working to Awaken. In: Rattling Chains. Transgressions, vol 89. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-107-8_3
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