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Racial Capitalism Perspectives on Educational Inequality

Wed, April 23, 9:00 to 10:30am MDT (9:00 to 10:30am MDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3F

Session Type: Symposium

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Despite decades of education reforms aimed at making schooling more equitable, intertwining race and class inequality remain a persistent challenge in the U.S. and abroad. From the perspective of racial capitalism, it is unsurprising that these reforms have been ineffective, due to the underlying and mutually reinforcing systems of racism and capitalism. In this symposium, we (1) employ racial capitalism to understand inequitable education policy, (2) extend empirical research on five policy areas that have received limited attention from this perspective, (3) situate the meaning making of local actors within a racial capitalism framework, and (4) propose challenges to racial capitalism in education, drawing on lessons learned from those living at the margins of White supremacy and capitalism.

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