Critical Conversations: Race, Inequality, and Education in America

March 4, 2022

Index:
0:50 Prof. John B. Diamond: Education as Oppression or Resistance
7:50 Prof. David Enrique Rangel: How do schools reflect societal inequalities?
16:40 Prof. Mahasan Chaney - The Educationalization of Social Problems
28:30 Prof. Noliwe Rooks: How do we dismantle white supremacy in our schools?
39:00 Panel Discussion
1:10:35 Audience Q&A

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Racial inequality in education is an entrenched and enduring issue in American society. Despite this, many continue to suggest that education is the great equalizer and a sure pathway to opportunity. This roundtable discussion series invites Brown faculty to reflect on some of the current conditions in the US school system.

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About the Speakers

Mahasan Chaney is an Assistant Professor of Education. Her research and teaching focus on education policy, and the history of education and center on three related policy areas: the racial politics of education, the politics of school punishment, and the ideologies and discourses of education reform.

John Diamond is Professor of Sociology and Education Policy. A sociologist of race and education, he studies the relationship between social inequality and educational opportunity, examining how educational leadership, policies, and practices operate through school organizations to shape students’ educational opportunities and outcomes.

David Enrique Rangel is an Assistant Professor of Education at Brown University. He studies family-school relations, focusing on how social class, race, ethnicity, and the broader social context structure relations within families, between families, and between families and schools with emphasis on the Latinx experience in the U.S.

Noliwe Rooks is Professor and Chair of the Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre. Her work explores how race and gender both impact and are impacted by popular culture, social history and political life in the United States.