Advances the conversation about racial equity in educational contexts with a unique analysis centered on the concept of racial projects - a way of thinking not only about systems of racial domination and subjugation, but also of resistance.

ContentsForeword Theo van Leeuwen xiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction 1PART I: FOUNDATIONS1. Conceptualizing Visual and Multimodal Phenomena 172. Theoretical Foundations of Multimodal Research 32PART II: ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORKS: TEXTS AND OBJECTS3. Iconographical Analysis 514. Visual Discourse Analysis 585. Visual Rhetorical Analysis 656. Multimodal Framing Analysis 717. Multimodal Content Analysis 788. Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis 869. Multimodal Genre Analysis 93Research Vignettes: Texts and Objects 99Research Vignette 1: Young Children's Multimodal Compositions 99Lindsey Moses Research Vignette 2: Multimodal Content of Magazine Covers 102Stephanie F. Reid, Danielle Kachorsky, and Kathryn P. Chapman Research Vignette 3: Critical Visual Discourse Analysis of 3-D Sculpture 107Peggy Albers Research Vignette 4: Multimodal Content Analysis of Wine Labels 110Frank Serafini Research Vignette 5: Examining Wordless Picture Books 115Evelyn Arizpe and Julie E. McAdam Research Vignette 6: A Critical Multimodal Comparison of Animation Software 118Emilia Djonov Research Vignette 7: Multimodality and Orientation-to-Action in Video Games 122Jeffrey B. Holmes, Earl Aguilera, and Kelly M. Tran Research Vignette 8: Animated Movie Adaptations of Literary Picture Books 125Len UnsworthPART III: ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORKS: EVENTS AND SPACES10. Social Semiotic Multimodal Analysis 13311. Critical Multimodal Analysis 14012. Mediated Discourse (Interactional) Analysis 14713. Multimodal Ethnographic Analysis 15314. Spatial Discourse Analysis 16015. Multimodal Cultural Analysis 16616. Digitally Based Multimodal Analysis 173Research Vignettes: Events and Spaces 180Research Vignette 9: Mapping (Visual) Identities During COVID-19 180Jennifer Rowsell Research Vignette 10: Critical Multimodal Analysis of Voting Spaces 183Marva Cappello Research Vignette 11: Multimodal Interaction Analysis of Social Positioning in Young Children at School 187Katie Bernstein Research Vignette 12: Understanding Spatial Pedagogy 190Fei Victor Lim Research Vignette 13: Collective Multimodal Research of Social Interaction in the COVID-19 Pandemic 194Elisabetta Adami Research Vignette 14: Analyzing Children's Virtual Realities 197Kathy A. Mills and Lesley Friend Research Vignette 15: A Multimodal Analysis of Children's Play 201Kate Cowan and John Potter Research Vignette 16: Spatial Discourse Analysis of InformalOutdoor Learning Spaces 204Louise RavelliEpilogue: Looking Back, Moving Forward 209References 215Index 235About the Author and the Contributors 245

“In Race Frames, the contributors frame units of analysis as racial projects to cut through the best intentions of equity-driven policies and practices, and observe how they often implicitly reproduce racialized/ing inequality. … (The book) is particularly timely in this way, as equity language has become increasingly hegemonic in education and susceptible to being appropriated to justify policies, pedagogies, and forms of care that harm racially marginalized youth.” —Teachers College Record

“This unique and stunning volume dramatically illustrates the multiple ways that race profoundly shapes educational policies, practices, and the lived experiences of students and their families. Unified by the concept of racial projects, the essays not only demonstrate the depth and persistence of structural racial inequality, but also provide us with an understanding of how students and communities resist and contest the deleterious effects of racialization in schooling.” —Michael Omi, professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley