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Opportunities for Racial Equity Transformations in Curriculum, Race, Gender, Class Data & State Funding Nancy López, Ph.D. [email protected] Director, Institute for the Study of “Race” & Social Justice Co-chair, Diversity Council Associate Professor, Sociology The University of New Mexico Virginia Tech, Linking the Silos of Racial Equity Work, April 21, 2016 Arlington, VA 1 Invitation to a dialogue… • How can we build strategic partnerships & assess the impact of our work? • How can we advance opportunities for racial justice research, policy and practice? • How can we engage in productive dialogues about ethical equity-focused data collection, analysis, reporting and praxis (action and reflection) in policy areas (e.g., health, education, criminal justice, employment, housing)? 3 *INVITATION TO SELF-REFLEXIVITY * • Research/Policy/Praxis for whom and for what? • Who benefits? • What would research/policy anchored in ethical self-reflectivity (action and reflection) on race, racism and social justice for other marginalized groups look like? • What are some promising practices for getting there? • Where can you work the cracks? OPPORTUNITIES FOR EQUITY-BASED TRANSFORMATIONS… • How can we work together to establish a community of practice around ethical equity- based data collection and praxis? • If the purpose of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and other axes of inequality, how can we work toward ethical data collection that builds on the insight that race is not analytically equivalent with ethnicity and that take intersectionality seriously? • Data and Laws are a first step, but not enough. • How can we sustain this work? RADICAL CONTEXTUALIZATION (Chapman and Berggren, 2005) • Holistic approach • provid[ing] greater detail on the populations studied, including their heterogeneity and origins • identifying the social and economic processes that perpetuate inequalities • Speaking truth to power RADICAL CONTEXTUALIZATION • movement away from a focus on poverty and impoverished people, to analysis of relationships of inequality and systems of power, to the examination of the impact of relative inequality on health and well-being across an entire society BENIGN NEGLECT? DE FACTO SPATIAL SEGREGATION REDLINING OF RESOURCES FOR URBAN COMMUNITIES WHY CONTEXTUALIZATION? (Chapman and Berggren, 2015:154) • racialization, as a social process, is not inseparable from skin color (p. 154) • toward ethical deliberation in ways that facilitate moral action. • engagement with racial [and] ethnic health disparities as moral processes, but not without serious implications. REFRAMING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS … • asking why some people are poor, we would ask why other people are so affluent?’ (Nader, 1972: 289). Holistic ethnographic methods – mapping the context • methods that focus ‘up’ lead to investigations of systems of power. This shift, in turn, necessitates shifting from studying the poor, whose ‘embodiment of inequality’ follows the fault line of the uneven distribution of power found • in every society, to studying the production and perpetuation of those inequities. 155 11 GOT INFLUENCE? “WORKING THE CRACKS” BY LINKING SILOS ACROSS DOMAINS OF POWER LOCAL LEVEL: University of New Mexico (Diversity Council, Institute for Study of “Race” & Social Justice, NM Statewide Race, Gender, Class Data Policy Consortium) STATE-LEVEL: New Mexico; Department of Health; Department of Education; Vital Records; ELAC NATIONAL LEVEL: Racial Equity Advocacy Groups; AfroLatino Forum; Imagining America – Community Engaged Census and Office of Management and Budget (OMB); National Academy of Sciences; National Institutes of Health; Scholarly Associations (ASA, AERA, etc.) INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF “RACE” & SOCIAL JUSTICE MISSION, UNM • Co-founded with Dr. Laura Gómez (now at UCLA) in 2009 with seed funding from RWJF Center for Health Policy – promote the establishment of empirical, theoretical and methodological clarity about “race” that draws on cutting-edge thinking from multiple disciplines and diverse empirical traditions – develop ways of empirically measuring “race” and assessing racialization processes in order to develop strategies for ameliorating race-based inequality – Partner with communities and policy makers 13 Is research/policy based on myth of race as biology ethical? CURRICULUM: Examine the textbooks "Ethnicity is that portion of a person's cultural background that relates to a national or religious heritage. A person's race is her or her biological heritage-for example, Caucasian or Asian. To be an effective speaker, adapt to differences in culture, race and ethnicity (Beebe & Beebe (2009:46).” --S.A. Beebe, National Communication Association, Pres. Elect 2013 Morning, The Nature of Race: How Scientist Think and Teach about Human Difference DIVERSITY COUNCIL, CURRICULUM SUBCOMMITTEE, UNM For more information: diverse.unm.edu AERA 2016 NAVIGATING RESISTANCE TO ANTI-RACIST & ANTI-OPPRESSIVE CURRICULUM AT A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY IN THE SOUTHWEST IN U.S. Nancy López, PhD, Sociology, Institute for Study of “Race” & Social Justice, UNM Norma Valenzuela, PhD, Spanish, Kansas State U Kiran Katira, PhD, Peace Studies, Community Engagement Center, UNM Glenabah Martinez, PhD, Lang. Lit. Sociocultural Studies, UNM Jozi DeLeon, PhD, Special Educ., VP for Equity & Inclusion, UNM *MORE INFORMATION VISIT* diverse.unm.edu or race.unm.edu National Institutes of Health (NIH) Workshop, April 29-30, 2011 Institute for the Study of “Race” & Social Justice, RWJF Center for Health Policy, UNM 18 Institutional Transformation@ UNM? “U.S. & Global Diversity & Inclusion” undergrad requirement & diversity subcommittee of faculty senate curriculum committee (passed Spring 2014); Preferred Criteria on all Faculty & Job ads: “demonstrated commitment to equity, inclusion and student success and working with broadly diversity Communities” Dialogues on Equity Liaison on all Job Searches (in-progress, UC-Berkeley) Dialogues on Community Liaison and Equity Liaison on Faculty Senate Disentangling Race from Class in State Funding formula 2014); Graduate Advisors Council Partners (in-progress) Graduate Certificate Resolution: Transparency and Equity-Based Accountability of Student Funding via Lottery and Success Scholarships (in progress); Student Community Social Movement Fall 2014 Resolution: Partnership with Albuquerque Police Department (in progress) “Race & Social Justice Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate” 15-credit interdisciplinary, transcripted certificate through the Institute for the Study of “Race” & Social Justice More info: race.unm.edu 20 (slides 1-2 for presentation, slides 4-12 additional information) Institutional Transformation@ UNM? “U.S. & Global Diversity & Inclusion” undergrad requirement & diversity subcommittee of faculty senate curriculum committee (passed Spring 2014); Preferred Criteria on all Faculty & Job ads: “demonstrated commitment to equity, inclusion and student success and working with broadly diversity Communities” Equity Liaison on all Job Searches (in-progress, UC-Berkeley) Equity Liaison on Faculty Senate Operations Committee (in-progress) Disentangling Race from Class in State Funding formula 2014); Graduate Advisors Council Partners (in-progress) Graduate Certificate Resolution: Transparency and Equity-Based Accountability of Student Funding via Lottery and Success Scholarships (in progress); Student Community Social Movement Fall 2014 Resolution: Partnership with Albuquerque Police Department (in progress) College for Social Transformation Working Group (2012-2014) Making the Invisible Visible: Examining Race-Gender-Class Gaps in Six-Year Graduation and Remedial Class Placement at Southwest Public University 1980- 2015 AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHERS ASSOCIATION, 4/10/16 Dr. Nancy López, Sociology Dr. Melissa Binder, Economics Christopher Erwin, PhD Candidate Economics Mario JAVIER Chavez, Sociology, UNM Health Policy Doctoral Fellow University of New Mexico For more information visit INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF “RACE” & SOCIAL JUSTICE: RACE.unm.edu Intersectional Radical Contextualization of Educational Opportunity Structure & Mechanisms P-12 SEDIMENTATION OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY LOGIC MODEL STRUCTURAL STRUCTURE HIGHER RACE-GENDER-CLASS • Curriculum EDUCATION GAPS Tracking OUTCOMES (Intraschool De IN facto • Remedial Courses Segregation: AP, INTERGENERATIONAL Honors, Gifted) • 6-year Graduation LIFE CHANCES • School Resources • Education (Private/Public/C • Employment harter; Concentrated • Wages Disadvantage/D • Wealth e facto School- Level • Law Enforcement Segregation) • Health HYPOTHESES 1. We expect that while White and Asian students are more likely to receive a degree in 6 years when compared to Black, Native American and Hispanic students, race-class gaps will remain. 2. We expect that while White and Asian students are less likely to be placed in English and Math remedial courses when compared to Black, Native American and Hispanic students, race-class gaps will remain. Key Finding: RACE-CLASS GAPS Class is not a proxy for the familiar racial (and gender) achievement gap in six-year college graduation or remedial class placement Intersectionality in quantitative methods matters: several race-gender- income student groups are associated with higher odds of being placed in remedial courses, attributing to their lower odds of obtaining a degree in 6 years NATIONAL: 2011 Symposium – Racial & Ethnic Measurements for 2020 Census Do all of these subgroups have similar health physical