Racialization and Education in International Contexts

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Global educational systems are deeply connected to histories of colonization and empire that employed “scientific” notions of race to justify economic, political, and cultural domination. Education has been utilized in diverse ways at distinct moments to include, exclude, indoctrinate, and transform societies (Freire, 1970). Despite its foundational role in educational development, race has been largely invisible and under-utilized as a category of analysis in studies of international and comparative education (Sriprakash et al., 2019). This omission is particularly concerning given how the processes of race, racialization, and white supremacy result in remarkably similar patterns of stratification and exclusion, despite deep variances in national politics, governance, and histories of colonization (Hall, 1980; Pierre, 2013; Smith, 2016). This panel will present analyses of race and racialization in comparative, transnational, and national contexts.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics

Chair

• Janelle T. Scott, University of California - Berkeley

Speakers

• Mike Hoa Nguyen, New York University

• Gaurav J Pathania, Eastern Mennonite University

Presenters

• Krystal Strong, Rutgers University

• Steven L. Nelson, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

Discussant

• Yeukai Angela Mlambo, Arizona State University