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Navigating Race, Immigration, and National Identity in Transnational Educational Contexts

Sun, April 14, 9:35 to 11:05am, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Room 201C

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This proposed presidential session explores the complex relationships between race, immigration, and national identity within formal and informal educational contexts. Drawing on research and praxis among racialized communities in the United States, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, session participants will: explore the affordances and constraints of the leading theories on race and racialization; work to dismantle misleading and reductive compartmentalizations of race, immigration, and nationalism; spotlight the role that P-20 schools play in constructing, reinforcing, and reproducing social divides along racial and nation-state lines; and provide concrete and actionable strategies for educational scholars and practitioners to to dismantle various forms of injustice.

The scholars in this session will engage in a conversation that will push conceptual boundaries, modeling how a racial analysis can enrich our understanding of immigration as well as how theorizations of nationality and immigration can deepen our understanding of racialization both within and beyond a U.S. context.

This presidential panel format will be conversational: panelists will address a set of questions that touch on injustice and imagination, on activism and action, and that situate educators and schools as central to change-making. The moral and ethical stakes of the conversation––––when to speak out and remain silent, the place of educational research in the movement for Black lives, and the place of refusal and desire in willing a just future––cannot be underestimated and will be explicitly broached during the session.

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