PRIVILEGE AND RACE: THEORISING BLACK STUDENT'S' IDENTITY FORMATION & NEGOTIATION OF BRITISH PRIVATE SCHOOLS

英国的精英私立学校在阶级和特权的社会复制中扮演着核心角色。然而，由于很少对他们的动态进行社会学调查，我们缺乏对种族和种族主义在他们身上占据什么位置以及它们如何与教育特权相交的理解。我们几乎对特权教育在迎合白人占主导地位的精英阶层并由其形成时所表现出的涟漪社会和空间效应一无所知。在2020年#BlackLives Matter复兴后，私立学校的许多黑人学生和校友集体表达了被边缘化、歧视和创伤的经历。我的研究是第一个认真解决私立学校之间这些讨论的人。我将使用布尔迪奥的框架和关键种族理论，调查黑人学生和校友的集体经历，特别是他们的学校教育对他们在整个教育过程和教育后的身份发展和成就结果的影响。研究方法将采用混合的三角变量，从定性和定量来源，如UCAS的HESA数据，包括焦点小组和对50-70名学生和校友进行的半结构化访谈，以及文件分析。我将使用STATAor SPSS进行回归和主题编码分析，以建立研究问题最准确的图景。我相信，这些发现将对一个被广泛讨论但在学术上很少受到关注的话题具有重要意义，尽管它对许多人的生活产生了影响。

Britain's elite private schools play a central role in the social reproductionof class and privilege. However, with little sociological inquiry into theirdynamics we lack understanding about what place race and racism holdwithin them and how they intersect with educational privilege. We knowalmost nothing about the rippling social and spatial effects of howprivileged education is manifested when catered to, and formed by, awhite dominant elite. After the 2020 resurgence of #BlackLivesMatter,private schools saw many of their Black students and alumni collectivelyexpress experiences of marginalisation, discrimination and trauma. Myresearch is the first to seriously address these discussions amongstindependent schools. Using a Bourdieusian framework alongside criticalrace theory, I will investigate Black students' and alumni's collectiveexperiences, specifically the impact their schooling has had on theiridentity development and attainment outcomes throughout and post-education.The study method will be mixed, triangulating variables fromqualitative and quantitative sources, such UCAS' data for HESA's, andinclude focus groups and semi-structured interviews conducted on 50-70students and alumni alongside document analysis. I will be using STATAor SPSS to conduct regression and thematic coding analysis to build themost accurate picture of the research problem. I am confident that thefindings will be significant for a topic that has been widely discussed yetgiven little attention academically, despite its impact on many lives.