On behalf of Rossier’s Office of the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs, we hope many of you will come out and support our featured speaker:
Dr. Jabari Mahiri
Professor of Education and the William and Mary Jane Brinton Chair in Urban Teaching
UC Berkeley
Micro-Cultures: Shifting the Multicultural Paradigm and Deconstructing Race
Moderator: Dr. Brendesha Tynes
Wednesday, October 15, 2014, 12:30pm*
Social Sciences Building (SOS) B-27
*The seminar will start promptly at 12:30pm.
Please find Dr. Mahiri’s abstract and bio below.
Bring your lunch and we’ll provide refreshments.
Please RSVP to Sonya Black-WIlliams at sonyabla@rossier.usc.edu.
RSVPs get priority seating.
Thank you.
ABSTRACT
Digital media enables youth and adults to express highly distinctive personal identities and affinities not bound by traditional categories of race. This talk links scholarship on these issues with the analysis of ethnographic interview data from 25 informants (women and men in five racialized categories) to explore the complexity and fluidity of what I call "micro-cultural" positioning, perceptions, practices, prerogatives, and perspectives. From this scholarship and analysis of data, Dr. Mahiri argue that micro-cultural positions, practices, etc. work to deconstruct race and reveal a critical need to shift the multicultural paradigm which operates within essential racial categories assigned by white supremacy.
Bio
Jabari Mahiri is Faculty Director for both the Multicultural Urban Secondary English M.A. and the Bay Area Writing Project. He also is the Board Chair for REALM Charter Schools and a current member of the Governing Council of the American Educational Research Association. Two of his recent books are Digital Tools in Urban Schools (2011) and The First Year of Teaching: Classroom Research to Improve Student Learning (2014).
Professor of Education and the William and Mary Jane Brinton Chair in Urban Teaching
UC Berkeley
Micro-Cultures: Shifting the Multicultural Paradigm and Deconstructing Race
Moderator: Dr. Brendesha Tynes
Wednesday, October 15, 2014, 12:30pm*
Social Sciences Building (SOS) B-27
*The seminar will start promptly at 12:30pm.
Please find Dr. Mahiri’s abstract and bio below.
Bring your lunch and we’ll provide refreshments.
Please RSVP to Sonya Black-WIlliams at sonyabla@rossier.usc.edu.
RSVPs get priority seating.
Thank you.
ABSTRACT
Digital media enables youth and adults to express highly distinctive personal identities and affinities not bound by traditional categories of race. This talk links scholarship on these issues with the analysis of ethnographic interview data from 25 informants (women and men in five racialized categories) to explore the complexity and fluidity of what I call "micro-cultural" positioning, perceptions, practices, prerogatives, and perspectives. From this scholarship and analysis of data, Dr. Mahiri argue that micro-cultural positions, practices, etc. work to deconstruct race and reveal a critical need to shift the multicultural paradigm which operates within essential racial categories assigned by white supremacy.
Bio
Jabari Mahiri is Faculty Director for both the Multicultural Urban Secondary English M.A. and the Bay Area Writing Project. He also is the Board Chair for REALM Charter Schools and a current member of the Governing Council of the American Educational Research Association. Two of his recent books are Digital Tools in Urban Schools (2011) and The First Year of Teaching: Classroom Research to Improve Student Learning (2014).
