The World Yearbook of Education 2023: Racialization and Resistance

Group Submission Type: Formal Panel Session

Proposal

Proposed Double Session for the 21st Century Socialism And Education: Global Alternatives To Patriarchy, Racial Capitalism, Militarism, And Climate Change Track of CIES

Session Summary

The World Yearbook of Education 2023 centers on the intersection of racialization, inequality, and education. It critically examines how racial formation and its associated logics about citizenship, belonging, justice, equality, and humanity manifest in early childhood education, primary, secondary, and higher education, as well as non-formal, community-based education settings. The papers offer multi-sited perspectives into how racialization has and continues to shape educational inequality, with an eye toward the agency and resistance of youth and communities in contesting such forms of domination and marginalization.

Across three sections, the book examines how forces of imperialism, white supremacy, and colonization have shaped racialization in distinct locations and how education was historically utilized as a site for both the creation and/or reification of difference. It reveals the lingering effects of processes of racialization in distinct locations globally and their intersections with educational policies, ideologies, systems, and realities.

Inviting readers to learn, reflect, and engage with the layered and complex realities of racialization and inequality in education across the globe, World Yearbook of Education 2023 is a timely and important contribution to discussions of racialization and provides the field with a robust foundation for future critical inquiry and engagement with the themes of race, racialization, inequality, and education.

This proposed double panel (Part 1 and Part 2) that focuses on the World Yearbook of Education 2023 will showcase several of the chapters and perspectives contained in the Volume. In Part 1, the editors will offer an overview of the volume and focus on issues of racialization and educational inequality across the globe with a focus on the diverse manifestations and engagements with racial capitalism and transnational forces.

In Part 2 of the panel, we will focus squarely on the chapters in the Section III of the book that examine racialization, resistance, agency, social movements and possibilities for reparative futures.

We would like to request that the two panels, if accepted, be scheduled back to back to allow for participants (who would like to) to stay for both in-person panels.

Sub Unit

• 21st Century Socialism and Education: Global Alternatives to Patriarchy, Racial Capitalism, Militarism, and Climate Change

Chairs

• Monisha Bajaj, University of San Francisco

• Janelle Scott, UC Berkeleey

Individual Presentations

• Racialization and Resistance in South African Education - Salim Vally, University of Johannesburg

• The Black Lives Matter at School Movement: Demanding Educational and Racial Justice - Denisha Jones

• Affirmative Action and Racialization in the United States and Brazil - Jeana E Morrison, Albion College; OiYan Poon, The Spencer Foundation

• Education for Subordination: Youth and the Afterlives of Coloniality and Racialization in Africa - Krystal Strong, Rutgers University; Christiana Kallon Kelly, University of Pennsylvania

• Global Cadences of Islamophobia: Comparative Reflections on the Racialization and Education of Muslim Youth - Roozbeh Shirazi, University of Minnesota

Discussants

• Antoni Verger planells, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

• Arathi Sriprakash, University of Bristol

• Sharon Walker, University of Bristol