16.026 - Beyond Public Versus Private: Critical Race and Feminist Perspectives on Public, Private, and Corporate Spaces in Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Historical and present day co-formations and intersections of race and gender with privatization complicate our understanding of privatization as bad and public as good, and vice versa. The public vs. private binary masks the complex roles of individuals, families, non-governmental organizations, religious institutions, foundations, and corporations, all of which are often conceived of as private actors engaged in processes of privatization. This symposium presents a theoretical framework for understanding these intersections and complicating the public –private binary by drawing on critical race and feminist theories and theories of cultural political-economy, and examines empirical cases that highlight the complexity of public, private, and corporate spaces and processes in a context of racial domination and struggle in education.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 4: Social Contexts of Educational Policy and Politics

Chairs

• Erica Owyang Turner, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Kathryn Moeller, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Papers

• Toward a Theoretical Understanding of Corporations and Corporatization in Education - Kathryn Moeller, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Maria Velazquez, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• The Redefinition of Civil Rights Through School Choice: Equity and the Market in Education Policy - Janelle T. Scott, University of California - Berkeley

• Unpacking "the Public Schools": The Racial State, Test Cheating, and the Perspective of Working-Class Blacks - Erica Owyang Turner, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Refusing Hero Narratives: Black Youth, Neoliberal Paternalism, and Community-Based Educational Spaces - Bianca Jontae Baldridge, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussants

• Ujju Aggarwal, The New School

• Pauline Lipman, University of Illinois at Chicago