53.064 - New Research on Challenging White Supremacist Educational Structures to Achieve the Promised Equal Educational Opportunity

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The purpose of this symposium is to present new research on the burgeoning discussion around reframing educational spaces to challenge white supremacist structures and empower African American students. Typically, educational research on African American students focuses on the “achievement gap” and other deficit modeling to describe and explain how students are failing in schools. This new research seeks to turn the discussion from descriptions of how students can do better in school structures steeped in white supremacy to how schools, communities, and other educational spaces can reconstruct in order to “do better” by our students.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies

Chair

• James C. Jupp, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Papers

• Fighting Mediocrity: Unraveling Crisis Narratives of Black Education - Brian Lozenski, Macalester College

• "Might as Well Be What They Want": Whiteness, Schooling, and Resistance - Boni Wozolek, Loyola University Maryland

• "Now I Know People Were Not Miserable in Segregated Schools": Erasure in Nonschool Learning Environments - Karen L.B. Burgard, Texas A&M University - San Antonio

• Caring Solidarity: A New Framework to Dismantle White Supremacist Structures in Educational Spaces - Michael L. Boucher, Texas A&M University - San Antonio

Discussant

• James C. Jupp, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley