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Mapping Racial Projects in Postsecondary STEM: Interrogating Scripts, Schemas, and Structures for Justice
Sun, April 12, 1:45 to 3:15pm PDT (1:45 to 3:15pm PDT), JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 2nd Floor, Platinum HSession Type: Symposium
Abstract
This symposium critically explores postsecondary STEM education as a racial project. Through empirical and theoretical scholarship, presenters examine how racial meanings are re/produced across micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of STEM education. Topics include discourses that reproduce colorism and anti-Blackness in engineering; how South Asian students’ navigate and reify racial hierarchies in physics; Black women’s resistance of peer enactments of racial scripts in active learning; the development of critical consciousness and racial noticing among teaching assistants; and how STEM departments differentially allocate resources based on racial schemas. Grounded in frameworks such as CRT, DesiCrit, Racialized Organizations, and Racial Formation, the symposium advances understandings of STEM as a racial project and offers pathways to disrupt inequities and imagine just, liberatory futures.
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Division J - Postsecondary Education / Division J - Section 6: Society, Culture, History, and Change
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Papers
De-homogenizing ‘Asian Americans’ in Physics Education: DesiCrit as an Analytic Framework - Tra Huynh, Western Washington University; Amy Robertson, Seattle Pacific University; Shahnaz Masani, Michigan State University
Engineering Education Reinforces Monolithic Constructions of Latino/a/e/x Identity and Stifles Critical Consciousness - Summer Rose Blanco, University of Georgia; Tatiane Russo-Tait, University of Georgia
Developing Learning Assistants’ Critical Consciousness and Racial Noticing Lens through a Justice-Oriented STEM Fellowship - Regan Levy, Michigan State University; Shahnaz Masani, Michigan State University
How Students from Different Racial Backgrounds Enact and Resist Racial Scripts in Peer Discussion - Hannah Nichols, University of Georgia; Talia Swanson, University of Georgia; Tatiane Russo-Tait, University of Georgia
Mapping the Racialized Organization of STEM Academic Departments - Meaghan Pearson, Vanderbilt University; Aireale J. Rodgers, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Tatiane Russo-Tait, University of Georgia