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Race-ing Education
Fall 2016
Jody Cohen, Education 208: Race-ing Education, TTH 12:55-2:15
"...we live race as if it has meaning and we live within a society in which those raced meanings have innumerable consequences." (Warmington, "Taking race out of scare quotes: Race-conscious social analysis in an ostensibly post-racial world")
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: The New Press, 2010):
One way of understanding our current system of mass incaraceration is to think of it as a birdcage with a locked door. It is a set of structural arrangements that locks a racially distinct group into a subordinate political, social, and economic position, effectivley creating a second-class citizenship...the system itself is structured to lock them into a subordinate position (185).
Welcome to "Unsettling Literacy," a new pair of courses (English 244 and Education 244)
to be offered by Jody Cohen and Anne Dalke at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2017.
Grounding ourselves in the domains of identity matters and ecological studies, we ask how different dimensions of human identity (such as race, class, gender, sexuality and religion) affect our ability to act and interact in the social and natural worlds. We look simultaneously at how these spaces shape and re-shape our identities and actions, individually and collectively. Our cross-disciplinary approach re-examines personal experiences through the differing orientations of the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Seeking fresh understandings, we consider the novel All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki; short stories by Ursula LeGuin and Octavia Butler; Oreskes and Conway's science fiction tale, The Collapse of Western Civilization; and essays by community activists, educators, and journalists Teju Cole, Paulo Freire, Van Jones and Elizabeth Kolbert.
Kimberly K. Smith, African American Environmental Thought: Foundations (University Press of Kansas, 2007):
race slavery brought its victims into a problematic relationshp to the Aemrican landscape....that analysis of the conneciton between racial oppression and blacks' relationship to the environment has had a persistent presence in black politics, manifesting itself most recently in the environmental justic movement..."an extension of hte first protext against being uprooted from our homeland and brought to a strange land" (187).
