September 14 - 16, 2006
In the Race for Education, Why Are So Many Left Behind?
The first theme of this conference—race, knowledge, and disciplinarity—sought to explore how specific academic fields or disciplines negotiate the issue of race and how race enables and constrains knowledge production. The second theme, racial dynamics and racial performances in the classroom (and beyond), sought to explore how students and teachers behave inside and outside the classroom and how they embody and perform race. The third theme, race, pedagogy, and community, sought to examine how students, teachers, administrators, and the educational institutions they collectively constitute are situated within or in relation to broader communities.
Speakers at the 2006 Race & Pedagogy National Conference included:
- Cornel West, philosopher, and political activist
- Ernesto Martinez, University of Oregon
- Hannah Tavares, University of Hawaiʻi–Mānoa
- Lucius T. Outlaw Jr., Vanderbilt University
- Beverly Daniel Tatum, President Spelman College
- Kristen Klaaren, Randolph-Macon College
- Robert Moses, founder, and president of Algebra Project Inc