Toward a Relational Racialization Lens in Education: Addressing Critiques of CRT’s Race Theory

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 1:30 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 1
  In Roundtable Session: CERECG SIG Round Table 5: Critical Race Analysis in Education Research (Table 6)

Abstract

In education, CRT is the predominant framework for studying racism. However, some have argued CRT lacks a racial theory and that CRT-education scholarship should examine how education racializes (i.e. contributes to making racialized categories). I suggest that one way to address this gap is by adopting a relational racialization lens—a perspective that helps scholars theorize on the process of creating the boundaries of racialized groups and that places these boundaries as always relational to the different racial categories. I present an account of how a relational racialization lens complemented my CRT research and illuminated issues concerning racialization and rac¬isms. I argue this lens can help education scholarship advance with a racial theory and contribute to important conversations about racialization.

Author

• Laura Chavez-Moreno, University of California - Los Angeles