Na'ilah Suad Nasir, "The Culture of Educational Inequality"

"Race Today: A Symposium on Race in America" brought a group of the nation’s most respected intellectuals on race, racial theory and racial inequality together to consider the troubling state of black life in America today. What are the broader structural factors that shape race today? How do these factors work on the ground and institutionally and what are the consequences? What are the ideas about race, and racial identities that enable the normalcy of stark racial differences today? In particular, what role do key ideas such as “colorblindness” and “post race” play in shaping perception and outcomes? What can be done to challenge ideological and structural impediments to a racially egalitarian society?

Na'ilah Suad Nasir is the Department Chair and an Associate Professor of African American Studies; and Chair in Educational Disparities in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Suad Nasir's research centers on how issues of culture and race influence the learning, achievement, and educational trajectories of African American and other non-dominant students in urban school and community settings. Her work can be found in Anthropology and Education Quarterly, the American Educational Research Journal, and Educational Researcher.

Friday, February 27, 2015
Brown University
Presented by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) and the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.
Co-sponsored by the Office of the President and the Office of Institutional Diversity.

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