On the elephant in the room: toward a generative politics of place on race in academic discourse

Authors

Baudelaire Ulysse
Theodorea Regina Berry
James C. Jupp, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-2016

Abstract

In our conceptual essay, we draw on an exchange between a White scholar and a group of panelists on Critical Race Theory at an international conference. Taking up this exchange as our point of departure, we work in dialectical and multidimensional ways between the essentialized politics of place on race and critical anti-essentializing foundations in recent Critical Race Feminism and Critical White Studies’ literatures. Working the dialectics and multidimensionality of the place that race makes in academic discourse, we recognize and ethically work through the essentialized politics of place in advancing anti-essentializing understandings of race. In articulating these anti-essentializing understandings, our conceptual essay drives at the notion of a generative politics of place on race in academic discourse. A generative politics of place holds essentialized realities and anti-essentializing foundations of race in dialectical and multidimensional tension for teaching, learning, and discussing race in local, national, and international contexts.

Comments

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

Recommended Citation

Ulysse, B., Berry, T. R., & Jupp, J. C. (2016). On the elephant in the room: Toward a generative politics of place on race in academic discourse. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 29(8), 989-1001. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2016.1174903

Publication Title

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

DOI

10.1080/09518398.2016.1174903