49.013 - Justice and Education Amid Deepening Social and Economic Inequalities: Realities, Challenges, and Possibilities in a New Global Context

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This panel considers the ways in which the restructuration of social class (relations and sensibilities) is produced, engaged, and intrinsically linked to race/ethnicity in massively altered global context. Taking up this “class project” in varying nations, including Australia, Barbados, India, South Africa and the United States, four well-known scholars present empirically driven papers that press towards increased respect for the range of national contexts in which class and race/ethnic inequalities are currently being produced and/or challenged via the organization and day-to-day workings of educational institutions. Arguing that poverty and privilege must be understood as co-produced, speakers highlight the production of new forms of global privilege both within and between nations and its implications for meaningful struggles for justice through education.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Lois Weis, University at Buffalo - SUNY

Papers

• Abject Nations and Class Conflations: Toxic Mobilities and Elite Girls' Schools - Jane Edith Kenway, Monash University

• Class and the Discourse of "Asia Rising" in an Elite Indian School - Fazal A. Rizvi, University of Melbourne

• Reckoning With the Aspirant Class in the Postcolonial Context: Reflections on Aspects of Class Formation in a Barbados Elite School - Cameron R. McCarthy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Class Warfare: Class, Race, and College Admissions Among the Aspirant Class in U.S. Secondary Schools - Lois Weis, University at Buffalo - SUNY

Discussant

• Henry M. Levin, Teachers College, Columbia University