60.042 - W. E. B. Du Bois and Caste Education: Racial Capitalist Schooling and Caste Formation From Jim Crow to Neoliberal Reconstruction

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

As numerous researchers looking at segregation and schooling have pointed out, social and economic equity have not been synonymous with public education in the U.S. (Anyon 1997; Bell 2005; Kelly 2010; Orfield et al. 2014). This symposium starts from the premise that public education in the racial capitalist society of the U.S. in fact does exactly what it was designed to do: produce racial and economic inequalities necessary for accumulating wealth for corporate/state elites and maintenance of white supremacy. The analyses comprising this panel use W.E.B. Du Bois’s virtually unknown work on caste education to begin to define and articulate how racial capitalist schooling functions as an appendage within the larger caste system of control (Alexander 2012).

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 4: Social Context of Education Policy, Politics, and Praxis

Chair

• Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia

Papers

• Repressing Radical Potentiality: How the Work of W. E .B. Du Bois Can Help Us Understand Urban Schooling in the 21st Century - Anita Juarez, University of Utah

• W. E. B. Du Bois and Caste Education: Racial Capitalist Schooling From Reconstruction to Jim Crow - Clayton Todd Pierce, University of Utah

• Caste Education and White Double Consciousness: Du Bois, Racial Knowledge, and Subjectivity in the White World - Gardner R Seawright, University of Utah

• Mechanisms of Discipline in a 21st-Century Caste Education System - Robert Unzueta, University of Utah

Discussant

• Hilton Kelly, Davidson College