72.050 - The Relationship Between Ethnic Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education: Theoretical Considerations for the Future

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Critical Race Theory (CRT) in Education regularly traces its intellectual roots to Critical Legal Studies (CLS). Whereas we do not refute that legal scholars were and continue to be central in the development of CRT, in this panel we assert the role that Ethnic Studies scholarship particularly, and critical scholarship of race (often which developed before the formalization of Ethnic Studies as a field) had and continues to have in shaping CRT. Through centering Ethnic Studies in CRT discourse, these papers demonstrate how CRT scholarship in Education can better consider how issues of capitalism, coloniality, and imperialism intersect with contemporary racism to shape the experiences and resistance of the marginalized communities of color with whom we work.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice

Chair

• Tracy Lachica Buenavista, California State University - Northridge

Papers

• Racial Formation in American Education: School Reform and the Ideology of Academic Achievement - Daniel D Liou, Arizona State University

• Reward and Resistance: The Evolution of Latina/o Critical Theory in Educational Scholarship - Maria C. Ledesma, University of Utah; Daniel Gilbert Solorzano, University of California - Los Angeles

• Empire in Transit: Critical Race Theory and the Palimpsest of Indianness - Dolores Calderon, University of Utah

• Can Critical Race Theory Address Anti-Muslim Racism? - Arshad Imtiaz Ali, George Washington University

Discussant

• David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago