Identity, Insurgency, and Fugitivity: Unfurling Tensions and Troubling the Future of Ethnic Studies

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This panel will discuss the history, evolution, influence, challenges, and future of Ethnic Studies as curricular insurgency and fugitivity. Panelists will think through the multiple political and curricular influences that have shaped Ethnic Studies. We will interrogate the challenges that accompany institutionalization within white supremacy. What has been gained and lost in that process? What questions and political positions become tenuous or impossible in the context of organizational compliance? And what subversive opportunities reveal themselves for a field that has historically been “in but not of” the institution (Harney & Moten, 2013, p. 26)?

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies

Chair

• Theodorea Regina Berry, University of Central Florida

Panelists

• Roland Sintos Coloma, Wayne State University

• Erica R. Davila, Lewis University

• Heather Moore Roberson, Allegheny College

• Denise M. Taliaferro Baszile, Miami University