Racialization and Education

Catalog description

This course asks the following questions: How are the racial meanings made, re-made, and/or unmade through education? How do racializing discourses interact in schools to shape the larger U.S. racial structure(s)? And, how do students engage with racialization processes through educational institutions in ways that disrupt, reproduce, and/or reinterpret their racial position, the broader racial structure, and dominant racial ideologies? This course encourages students to critically investigate how racialized discourses function in schools, and the implications for the purpose of education and racial ideology in the U.S.