Race Matters: Panelist 5

• In Event: 58.041 - Race Matters: Teaching Diversity Beyond the Margins

Abstract

Panelist Five is an Assistant Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher Education where he teaches courses on inequality including: Whiteness and Education, and Theories of Inequality. Panelist Five studies the "other side" of campus racism. These analyses help illuminate how, with no racial animus, White people can be
unconsciously racist in their interpersonal interactions. His work helps examine how White demands for social comfort during cross racial interactions not only serve to further marginalize their peers of color, but also serve to leave White students in a state of 'racial arrested development. Finally, his work helps illuminate pedagogical strategies to push students toward racial justice allyship. Panelist Five will draw from his body of research including: Beyond Black and White: How White Male College Students See Their Asian American Peers (Equity & Excellence in Education), But We’re Not Laughing: White Male College Students’ Racial Joking and What This Says About “Post-Racial” Discourse (Journal of College Student Development) and Working Through Whiteness: White Male College Students Challenging Racism (The Review of Higher Education).
Identity in the Classroom. Being Chicano in Arizona and given the content of what I study (Whiteness, racism), my students expect me to come into class with a strong racial analysis. While we are discussing issues of higher education, this lens frequently frames our discussions. That said, I also am very explicit about times when my social identities privilege me within institutions of higher education.

Author

• Nolan L. Cabrera, The University of Arizona