20864 - Feminist and Critical Complicities, Injustices, and Culture (Co-sponsored by Section on Sociology of Culture)

Description

As feminist and critical race scholars, we are all complicit in the entrenched inequities of the academy. For those of us based in the US and pay taxes, we are also complicit in the atrocities committed and supported by the US. This panel asks: what are the specific cultural practices, meanings, and toolkits that people – perhaps unwittingly – enact and use in ways that further entrenched patterns of inequities? That is, we know that systems of domination and oppression are the foundation of everyday life. In what ways do institutions, organizations, interlocutors, and/or we as scholars maintain the status quo and are complicit in perpetuating injustices? This panel is open to papers drawing on any type of data and methodology that pinpoints to cultural dimensions of how systems of oppression and domination are maintained.

Sub Unit

• Section on Race, Gender, and Class / Feminist and Critical Complicities, Injustices, and Culture (Co-sponsored by Section on Sociology of Culture)

Presider

• Yushan Wang, University of Pennsylvania

Individual Presentations

• “Eugenics Brought Home”: White Women Physicians and Reproductive Authority - Margaret Ruth Eby, University of Pennsylvania

• Statistical Gaslighting, Fetishization of Data & Dual Evidentiary Systems: OMB & Census as Sites of Racial Formation - Nancy López, University of New Mexico-Albuquerque; Sharan Kaur Mehta, The University of New Mexico; Attiya White, University of New Mexico; Joaquín Argüello de Jesús, University of New Mexico; Michelle Johnson, University of New Mexico; Yasmiyn Irizarry, University of Texas at Austin; Edward D. Vargas, Arizona State University-Tempe

• “What Can We Do at Home?" (De)Constructing the Role of the Home in Parental Engagement Discourse - Alyssa Lyons, CUNY-Lehman College

Session Organizer

• Victoria Reyes, University of California-Riverside