42.027 - Neoliberal Racism as Educational Policy

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Within the literature on neoliberalism and education, racial and economic analyses are commonly treated separately or at best as intersectional sets of power relations, as scholars have pointed out (Leonardo 2004; Lipman 2011). This symposium builds from work that calls for a unified and dialectical understanding of how race and economic policy work together to obscure racial and economic injustice through colorblind free market discourses and school reform strategies (Brown & De Lissovoy 2011; Stovall, 2013; Stern & Hussain, 2015). Through analyses of different historical case studies this panel extends existing understandings of neoliberal racism as it inflects educational policy, illuminating the ways past and present (neo)liberal economic and social processes preserve violent and dehumanizing conditions for communities of color.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 4: People and Politics (The Who of Curriculum)

Chair

• Clayton Todd Pierce, University of Utah

Papers

• The Violence of Compassion: Education Reform, Race, and Neoliberalism's Elite Rationale - Noah De Lissovoy, The University of Texas - Austin

• Hyper-Precarity and Latina/o DACAmented Teachers - Jose Garcia, California State University - Channel Islands

• Savior Visions and Diluted Solutions: A Settler-Racial Capitalist Analysis of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Coleman Report - Anita Juarez, University of Utah

• Caste Education and Population Racism: A Du Boisean Analysis of Neoliberal Data Economies - Clayton Todd Pierce, University of Utah