RUNNING HEAD: Pre-Prospectus

An Exploration of the Reproduction and Perpetuation of Socio-historical Oppression in U.S. Schools: Pre-prospectus
La’Quaria Barton
Georgia Southern University
Dr. Delores Liston, Dissertation Chair
Dr. Daniel E. Chapman, Committee Member
Dr. Lorraine S. Gilpin, Committee Member
Dr. Robert Yarbrough, Committee Member

TENTATIVE CHAPTER OUTLINE
Chapter 1: Introduction * Background of the Problem * Statement of the Problem * Purpose of the Study * Research Questions * Importance of the Study * Scope of the Study * Definition of Terms * Limitations
Chapter 2: Theoretical Framework
Chapter 3: Review of the Literature
Chapter 4: Research Methods * The Qualitative Paradigm * Qualitative Methods * The Researcher's Role * Data Sources * Data Collection * Data Analysis * Ethical Considerations
Chapter 5: Research Findings
Chapter 6: Conclusions, Discussion, and Suggestions for Future Research * Summary * Conclusions * Discussion * Suggestions for Future Research

Towards A Phenomenology of Liberation
From the very start, I am thus fully endorsing the premise that no account of race can be dissociated from a critique of power and a social historical ontology of ourselves
(de Oliveira, 2010, 209).
INTRODUCTION
I grew up in rural North Carolina. When I was in the third grade, I watched as five of my white peers were pulled from class to attend gifted courses. I always wondered why, I, who had always worked hard, was never pulled for what I perceived as reward for hard work and good grades. During the first week of school of my fifth grade year, the same White gifted teacher pulled the same five White students to begin gifted courses. The buzz around the class was that the five elite were preparing for Odyssey of the Mind, which was deemed an honor for the brightest and best in the school.