Division B Pre-Conference Seminar: Intersectionality, Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Methodologies by Women of Color (Day 1 of 2)

Session Type: Pre-Conference Mentoring Session

Abstract

This seminar employs theories and knowledge from the disciplines of law, education, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and gender and women studies to examine the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class, citizenship, religion, ability, immigration, etc. We will discuss the work of scholars who center the pedagogy and writing of Women of Color. Women of Color are socially placed as the victims of oppression through power constructs in the dominant discourse and reality. We will engage in conversations that are designed to better understand intersectionality, problematize the assumptions connected to the possession of multiple and intersecting socially marginalized identities, and investigate these identities through an organizing principle of social, cultural, political, and economic structures in different contexts, which have profound implications for institutions such as
education. We will focus on key concepts of intersectionality, including socio-cultural production and practice, positionality, power, and equity. We will approach education as a cultural, institutional, and local/global site where privilege and difference are formed, contested, and reinforced.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies

Chairs

• Theodorea Regina Berry, University of Central Florida

• Min Yu, Wayne State University