25.034 - Division G Vice-Presidential Session. Race(ing) Across the Disciplines: How Research in Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, and Law Understands Race and Racism

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Although education is known to be an interdisciplinary field of study, it respects the role of disciplines in generating sound research. The Vice Presidential Session, “Race(ing) Across the Disciplines,” takes up how the disciplines of psychology, law, anthropology, and sociology, address race/racism in research, either conceptually, empirically, or methodologically. It takes a “retrospective” or longview analysis of how these particular disciplines and their traditions understand race/racism, including the presenters’ main observations of any limitations as well as transformations or major shifts in the disciplines featured here. Finally, it showcases how this set of scholars’ own work takes up the question of race and racism from a disciplinary point of view and what this has to offer the field of education.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education

Chair

• Korina Jocson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Papers

• "Race" in Search of a Discipline - Aida Hurtado, University of California - Santa Barbara

• The Roots of U.S. Anthropology's Race Problem: Whiteness, Ethnicity, and Ethnography - Jonathan Warren, University of Washington; Michelle Kleisath, Shoreline Community College

• The "Grammars of Governance": Race and Racism in Legal Studies and the Continuing Quest for Justice - Hoang Vu Tran, Florida Atlantic University

• From Individual Prejudice to Structured Racism: Race, Whiteness, and Critical Sociology - Nolan L. Cabrera, The University of Arizona

Discussant

• Ezekiel J. Dixon-Roman, The University of Pennsylvania