Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Building Systems for Racial Justice and Equity

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This presidential session centers a multidisciplinary approach in examining educational
systems that hinder and propel racial and social justice. Bringing together researchers across
disciplines, presenters interrogate common and varied challenges we face in building equitable
systems and opportunities that reach the “full potential of people and communities”
(Nasir, Peele-Eady & Tipton, 2021, https://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings/Annual-
Meeting/2022-Annual-Meeting-Presidential-Program-Theme). Presenters not only critically
engage policies and practices that historically and systematically undermine educational and
social success across time and space but also theorize about mechanisms to disrupt inequitable,
racist, homophobic, and xenophobic processes. Indeed, presenters, “identify, study, and
enhance existing efforts to move systems toward equity to support all learners across the
lifespan, from early childhood to K–12 to higher education and adult learning” (Nasir, Peele-
Eady & Tipton, 2021, https://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings/Annual-Meeting/2022-Annual-
Meeting-Presidential-Program-Theme).

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• H. Richard Milner, Vanderbilt University

Papers

• The Racialized Exclusion of Young Immigrants and Migrants of Color - Mariana Souto-Manning, Erikson Institute; Jessica Martell, Teachers College, Columbia University; Karina Malik, Teachers College, Columbia University; Patricia Pion, New York City Department of Education

• Studying Systems of a School-to-Prison Pipeline and Restorative Justice - Bryant O. Best, Vanderbilt University; Laura Fittz, Vanderbilt University; Jacob Bennett, Vanderbilt University; H. Richard Milner, Vanderbilt University

• Racial Justice in Leadership Practices - Mark Anthony Gooden, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Chronic Absenteeism Among Students of Color: Implications for Policy - Joshua Childs, The University of Texas at Austin; Ain A. Grooms, The University of Iowa; Sheneka M. Williams, Michigan State University

• How To Dismantle Structural Racism in STEM Higher Education - Ebony O. McGee, Vanderbilt University

Discussant

• Elon Dancy, University of Pittsburgh

Panelists

• Perry Daniel, Indianapolis Public Schools

• Patricia Payne, Indianapolis Public Schools