Deadline Extended! Conference Call for Proposals (extended): 2016 Critical Race Studies in Education (CRSEA) Conference; Due 12/30/15

Conference Call for Proposals (extended): 2016 Critical Race
Studies in Education (CRSEA) Conference; Due 12/30/15

While inequitable structures and “race-neutral” policies in public
education continue to assault children of color by devaluing their
realities and overlooking their racial histories, young people are
growing up in a climate of incivility resulting from the state’s
failure to prosecute its agents when they attack the very people
they’re hired to protect. We argue that educational inequity is on the
same continuum of state-sanctioned violence as extrajudicial killings.
Though not as explicitly savage, these trends significantly impact
one’s life chances. Critical Race Studies is a tool with which to
better understand this continuum and our role in disturbing its
proliferation.

We invite researchers, activists, educators, and practitioners to
consider the role we play in addressing and resisting state-authorized
violence against people of color in the US and abroad. This year’s
conference is a summons to carefully ponder the conceptual
perspectives and thematic frameworks offered through the critical
study of race. How do we use critical race studies to dismantle unjust
systems and achieve equity across multiple social institutions? What
are the inherent limitations for our activism when race is isolated to
explain injustice? What is the role of education practitioners,
researchers, and activists for mitigating state-sanctioned violence
against communities of color? #CRSEA16 will provide a venue to forge
collaborations, break down barriers, and negotiate productive methods
for working across silos and cultural boundaries. We will engage in
all of this in an effort to disrupt state-sanctioned racialized
violence and the larger project of white supremacy.

We are seeking papers that identify empirical and conceptual
approaches to address and resist state-sanctioned violence – that
which occurs in the field of P-22 education and in society. We welcome
papers from multiple disciplines that implicate the role of formal and
informal educational systems, policies, and practices for resisting
racialized violence. Moreover, we welcome Critical Race Theory
scholars, as well as scholars who examine race and racism via other
theories, methodologies, and epistemologies to submit proposals. We
call for rigorous empirical papers, work that takes up and extends
theory, as well as those that are informed through praxis. Our goal is
to have an interdisciplinary conference attractive to academics,
activists, and practitioners who are working to dismantle state
violence in a white supremacist system.

Deadline for Proposals December 30, 2015

We invite proposals of less than 500 words directly connected to the
call and conference foci. We strongly encourage interactive
presentation proposals that identify, uncover, challenge, and resist
examples of systemic racism in the pursuit of social justice within
and outside of educational environments.

In order to appear in the program, membership and conference
registration must be paid for accepted presenters.

More information, including submission instructions, is available
here: http://www.crsea.org/cfp/