32.063 - Undertaking and Remaking Identity Politics in Educational Institutional Practice

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

From above and below, discourses of diversity are now prominent, widespread, and indispensable for educational endeavors. This panel examines the mutual-constitution of institutional practice and identity construction. Contributors to this panel build on and extend recent scholarship on identity politics and educational institutions by considering the following questions: How do actors make use of markers of identity in institutional and related social practices? How do institutions re-scale identity politics in moments and modes of interaction? And how are publics, intertwined with social categories and their political struggles, being made and remade as actors do their cultures, ethnicities, races, and social membership in collective life?

Sub Unit

• SIG-Language and Social Processes

Chairs

• Nicholas Limerick, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Stephen Peters, McGill University

Papers

• What Will You Stand Up For? Elementary-Aged Undocumented Students Speak Out on Immigration Reform - Ariana Mangual Figueroa, Rutgers University

• "Instead of Being Racist, Just Say 'M' for Mexican": Children Exploring Race and Immigration - Holly Link, Centro de Cultura, Arte, Trabajo y Eduación (CCATE)

• Multilingual Speaking and the Promotion of Indigenous Education in Ecuador - Nicholas Limerick, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Voicing Identity in Popular Education: Difference and Distinction in the Practice of Indigenous Public Speaking - Stephen Peters, McGill University

• Heterogeneous Ethnicities in the New Latino Diaspora - Stanton E F Wortham, Boston College; Briana Nichols, University of Pennsylvania