RACE, ETHNICITY, AND INEQUALITY IN AMERICAN EDUCATION

EDPOL 355

Public education in the United States is an inherently political site that offers an important institution to understand politics, power, and injustice broadly. Explore these themes from multiple angles: (a) the layered histories of injustice at the intersection of race, class, gender, and more in historical and present cases; (b) the power of ideas in shaping policy possibilities; (c) shifting levels of governance and questions of injustice; and (c) perspectives of key actors, interests, and stakeholders. Consider the politics of education in relation to broader social, spatial, historical, and political economic contexts. Develop critical analytic and conceptual tools to deeply understand and analyze how power and politics are impacting contemporary educational policy events. By drawing from grassroots and subjugated perspectives, cultivate a policy imagination towards more just educational possibilities, and explore the necessary policy infrastructure and movements to sustain them.

EDPOL 505

Explore urban education in the United States and its relationship to broader political, social, and economic contexts; focuses on contemporary urban educational issues and students' experiences in school and community settings, the experiences of students and families of color and the relationship between race, class, gender, and inequality in urban education.

CURRIC/RP&SE 406

Addresses a range of issues to help teachers more thoughtfully and equitably serve their students of color and develop a critical and historical understanding of the racism, marginalization, and exclusion that is endemic to the U.S. public school system. Provides an overview of foundational constructs that are essential for pre-service teachers preparing to teach and serve diverse students and families. Explore how race, racism, and racialization in education intersect with class, gender, dis/ability, religion, sexuality, etc. to shape inequitable schooling conditions and experiences for students of color. Analyze the effects at the individual, interactional, institutional, and societal levels Consider how power always-already enables particular policies and practices that reproduce educational inequities and hence sustain white privilege and dominance.

EDPOL/SOC 648

Utilizes a sociological lens to examine American schools and schooling, with a particular focus on social inequality in the U.S. and how class, race, and gender intersect in the experiences of students. Examine how schools and schooling relate to broader social structures, institutions, and practices with a focus on inequality in public education.

ELPA 863

Critically examines race and class inequality in education, including the importance of race and class at multiple levels of analysis, including the classroom and school, as well as the family, neighborhood, and community.