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Cinematic Intersection Series (LoveCraft Country): Whiteness as Futurity and Educational Research

Fri, April 9, 4:10 to 5:40pm EDT (4:10 to 5:40pm EDT), 2021 AERA Global, AERA Presidential Sessions - Chair Sessions 2

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session is Inspired by LoveCraft Country Episode 2: “Whitey’s on the Moon”. The episode title is an ode to Gil Scott Heron’s spoken word piece, “Whitey on the Moon.” At the time of his writing the piece, the US was desperately focused on the race to space, rather than the real and material struggles of Black people, the women’s movement, the Vietnam War and other activist causes. In other words, the race to space was a distraction. This session explores the notion of how whiteness acts as a distraction in educational discourses. While indeed accounts of racialized politics in education exist, educational scholars’ long-standing preoccupation with a racist past often distracts from an analysis of Whiteness’s role in the creation of the future. By uncovering the “not-yet” to come and/or the state of being related to the future, this invited presidential session will offer a futurity-temporal perspective to the Whiteness in education debate. It will examine how Whiteness as futurity colonizes (or orients) local/national/global subjects’ (individuals, institutions, policy makers’, institutions’, and nation-states’) imaginaries and reinforces the asymmetrical movements, networks, and untethered economies underpinning educational policies, practices, and/or leadership. This panel will interrogate the above in the context of globalization, settler futurity, racial capitalism, and popular culture.

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