Centering Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Scholarship: Integrating Intersectionality in Developmental Science

Session Type: Conversation Roundtable

Abstract

As developmental scientists, our scholarship should be guided by theory and concretely contribute to pursuing equity and justice in our work and its applications. As an applied scholarly community, this includes reflecting on how our language and practices promote and perpetuate in/equity and in/justice (e.g., uncritical use of terms including normative, typical, and appropriate). While centering on anti-racist perspectives, this roundtable explores interlocking systems of oppression from an intersectional perspective, particularly given calls to integrate intersectionality in developmental science (Santos & Toomey, 2018; Spencer, 2017). Given that all individuals likely hold a combination of privileged and minoritized identities, this roundtable discusses how to create scholarly contexts that promote self and community care and how to be/become an ally and co-conspirator in developmental science. While centering on approaches to promote decolonial and anti-oppressive research, this roundtable explores the interrelated need within higher education to promote intersectional and anti-oppressive teaching, mentoring, and community engaged, asset-based research approaches that foster and model anti-oppressive beliefs and practices. Relatedly, this roundtable explores indifference, resistance, and challenges to working within and across groups acknowledging individual, contextual, and historical variations. Considerable time will be reserved for audience questions, discussion, and articulating applied suggestions. This roundtable will be moderated by Dr. Lionel Howard.

Sub Unit

• Solicited Content: Anti-Bias Research or Interventions

Moderator

• Lionel Howard, George Washington University

Panelists

• Diamond Bravo, University of California - Riverside

• Brandon Yoo, Arizona State University

• Gabriela Chavira, California State University - Northridge

• Mona M Abo-Zena, University of Massachusetts Boston