Disrupting Antagonisms Against Muslim, Black, and Latinx Students and Communities: What’s the Role for Public Education Practice and Policy?

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

In the wake of the Trump Era, Brexit, and other evidence of xenophobia, conservative extremism and racist backlash across the globe, we have witnessed heightened expressions of antagonism and violence against Black, Muslim, and Latinx peoples. This session examines how the articulation of such anti-Black and anti-Brown sentiments reverberates in schools to produce social conflict, compromise student health and well-being and reinforce and justify educational and social inequalities. The session also explores how and why these anti-Black and –Brown articulations and their school-level reverberations may differ within and across nation-states. In a facilitated discussion, the panelists will engage the prospect that public education practice and policy, which have for so long reproduced and exacerbated racial antagonisms, might disrupt these articulations and their reverberations to support the cultivation of a more socially just society.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Michael J. Dumas, University of California - Berkeley

Participants

• Maria C. Malagon, California State University - Fullerton

• Genevieve Negron-Gonzales, University of San Francisco

• Arshad Imtiaz Ali, George Washington University

• Monique Antoinette Guishard, Bronx Community College - CUNY

• Wayne Au, University of Washington - Bothell

• Crystal T. Laura, Chicago State University