SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting

Date: Friday, August 9

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 019: Curricular Violence: White Supremacist Silencing in Education
Room: Drummond West

Sponsors: Crime and Justice
Critical Race and Ethnic Study
Educational Problems

Organizer: Miltonette Olivia Craig, Sam Houston State University

Presider &

Discussant: Florence Emilia Castillo, The University of Texas at Dallas

Description: 

This session focuses on how U.S. classrooms have become a political target, as numerous cities and states have instituted bans on materials and lectures that cover topics such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), critical race theory (CRT), gender and sexuality, and bias in the criminal legal system. Papers in this session will discuss the challenges that faculty across the U.S. have experienced due to such legislation that seeks to uphold white supremacy, stifle academic freedom, and silence teachings that focus on discrimination of marginalized groups and communities.

Papers:

“‘Making Whiteness Strange’: Displacing Whiteness through an Application of Racialized Organizational Theory in an Analysis of a Southwest School District,” Florence Emilia Castillo, The University of Texas at Dallas

“Curricular Injustice: How Medical Educators Obscure Structural Racism in the Teaching of Social Inequalities to Medical Students,” Lauren Olsen, Temple University

“White Liberal Supremacy in Higher Education as Symbolic and Institutional Violence: Experiences, Strategies, and Solutions,” Angie Beeman, Baruch College, CUNY