Racializing Cartographies: People, Schools, and Infrastructures of Race in the Bronx

• In Event: AERA Research in Progress Roundtable Session Five
  In Invited Roundtable: Research-in-Progress RT059 (Sunday)

Abstract

Tentatively titled “Racializing Cartographies: People, Schools, and Infrastructures of Race in the Bronx,” my project builds on preliminary research and is shaped by autoethnography, historical archives, interview data, and analyses of political economy. Broadly, this dissertation asks “how do we understand public schools in the context of local urban geographies?” More specifically, it inquires as to the role that a public school’s built environment and infrastructure plays in the assemblage of historical, social, and economic forces that produce specific types of racialized subjects, social relations, and modes of relationality.

Author

• Alexandros Orphanides, Stanford University