2120 - Feeling Race in School

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

This session will explore the conference theme though a close examination of schools, a key social institution that is a major arena both of socialization and stratification. Race is felt in schools on multiple levels including structural, cultural, social psychological and interactional. Where schools are located, how they are organized and funded, how attendance patterns are created, how students are assigned to classes, how textbooks are written have all historically been racialized processes. But schools don’t merely generate or mitigate racial inequality, they also generate identities and emotions. Scholars on this panel will discuss the many ways that race is felt in schools both indirectly and directly – providing or constraining opportunity and also shaping students’ sense of self and relationship to the world.

Description

This thematic session will explore the conference theme though a close examination of schools, a key social institution that is a major arena both of socialization and stratification. Race is felt in schools on multiple levels including structural, cultural, social psychological and interactional. Where schools are located, how they are organized and funded, how attendance patterns are created, how students are assigned to classes, how textbooks are written have all historically been racialized processes. But schools don’t merely generate or mitigate racial inequality, they also generate identities and emotions. Scholars on this panel will discuss the many ways that race is felt in schools both indirectly and directly – providing or constraining opportunity and also shaping students’ sense of self and relationship to the world.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Amanda Evelyn Lewis, University of Illinois at Chicago

Presider

• Amanda Evelyn Lewis, University of Illinois at Chicago

Panelists

• Prudence L. Carter, University of California-Berkeley

• Roslyn A. Mickelson, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

Discussant

• Phillip Bowman, University of Michigan