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Title: A Spectacle by Design: A Racialized Performance for Donor Dollars
Language: English
Authors: Abbie Cohen (ORCID 0009-0002-9517-2835)
Source: AERA Open. 2025 11(1).
Availability: SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: http://sagepub.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 14
Publication Date: 2025
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Donors, Power Structure, Community Organizations, Youth Programs, Student Needs, Private Financial Support, Elementary School Students
ISSN: 2332-8584
Abstract: Utilizing critical and participatory ethnography, this paper explores how racialized power dynamics impact the relationship between a youth-serving, community-based education nonprofit and its donors. Given the nonprofit's position between the public and private sectors, this study examines how the organization balances the donors' interests against public school students' needs. This paper analyzes the nonprofit's performance for its private donors and how private donors perform for the nonprofit. Combining Marxist theorist Guy Debord's society of spectacle with historian Cedric Robinson's racial capitalism framework illustrates how the nonprofit and its funders perform racialized, classed, and gendered acts. My findings capture these complex power dynamics and the democratic implications of the dynamic between a youth-serving, community-based education nonprofit and private philanthropy.
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Entry Date: 2026
Accession Number: EJ1494747
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