Crossfire in the Kitchen: Race and Class Role Tensions in Service-Learning

Autor/inn/en	Schwartzman, Roy; Sutton, Crystal U.
Titel	Crossfire in the Kitchen: Race and Class Role Tensions in Service-Learning
Quelle	In: Journal of Applied Learning in Higher Education, 5 (2013), S.61-82 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2150-8240
Schlagwörter	Service Learning; African American Students; Volunteers; African Americans; Community Programs; Social Class; Interpersonal Relationship; Socioeconomic Influences; Power Structure; Social Bias; Consciousness Raising; Ethnic Stereotypes; Food + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Service-Learning; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Freiwilliger; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Bewusstseinsbildung; National stereotype; Nationales Stereotyp; Lebensmittel
Abstract	This study approaches service-learning through a critical dramatistic perspective. Erving Goffman's concept of human interactions as staged performances combines with the structuration of race- and class-based power hierarchies to provide a theoretical framework for examining the interaction patterns between African-American college student volunteers and African-American clients at a faith-based community meal center. Employing an ethnographic method, the paper explores how intersectional identities foreground class differences in ways that fragment shared ethnicities. Observation of how volunteers and clients at the site react to each other's backstage activities (moments when actors depart from roles scripted as appropriate within the service-learning context) reveals how class-based tensions reveal systemic power imbalances that can influence the conduct and impact of service-learning. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Missouri Western State University. 4525 Downs Drive, Saint Joseph, Missouri 64507. Tel: 816-261-5993; e-mail: appliedlearning@missouriwestern.edu; Web site: https://www.missouriwestern.edu/appliedlearning/journal
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01