Educational Policy and the Cultural Politics of Race

Session Type: Paper Session

Abstract

Traditional educational policy research engages the concept of race primarily in analyses of inequitable access to resources, and studies of racially disproportionate school outcomes. While important, few scholars who engage these frames attend to the cultural politics of race—that is, the discursive processes through which the “common sense” about race, racisms, and racialized bodies is produced. Thus, the theme for the 2016 Politics of Education Association Yearbook is “Educational Policy and the Cultural Politics of Race.”

Sub Unit

• SIG-Politics of Education

Chair

• Michael J. Dumas, University of California - Berkeley

Papers

• Educational Policy and the Cultural Politics of Race - Wayne Au, University of Washington - Bothell; Ujju Aggarwal, Graduate Center of the City University of New York

• Educational Policy and the Cultural Politics of Race - Nelson Flores, University of Pennsylvania; Sherick A. Hughes, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Educational Policy and the Cultural Politics of Race - Connie Wun, University of Illinois at Chicago; Kevin Lawrence Henry, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussant

• Tina M. Trujillo, University of California - Berkeley