Critical Philosophy of Race and Education

Judith Suissa is Professor of Philosophy of Education at UCL Institute of Education, London, UK. Her research interests are in political and moral philosophy, with a focus on anarchist theory, questions of social justice, radical and libertarian educational traditions, utopian theory, the role of the state, and the parent-child relationship. Her publications include Anarchism and Education: A Philosophical Perspective (2006) and The Claims of Parenting: Reasons, Responsibility and Society (with Stefan Ramaekers, 2012).Darren Chetty is a Teaching Fellow at University College London, UK. He has published academic work on philosophy, education, racism, children’s literature, and hip-hop culture. He is a contributor to The Good Immigrant (edited by Nikesh Shukla, 2016) and he co-authored What Is Masculinity? Why Does It Matter? And Other Big Questions (with Jeffrey Boakye, 2019). Darren tweets @rapclassroom

• Introduction 1. Is there such a thing as ‘white ignorance’ in British education? 2. Knowledge and racial violence: the shine and shadow of ‘powerful knowledge’ 3. Racism as ‘Reasonableness’: Philosophy for Children and the Gated Community of Inquiry 4. Reconstructing a ‘Dilemma’ of racial identity education 5. Teacher-led codeswitching: Adorno, race, contradiction, and the nature of autonomy 6. Affect, race, and white discomfort in schooling: decolonial strategies for ‘pedagogies of discomfort’ 7. Race, pre-college philosophy, and the pursuit of a critical race pedagogy for higher education 8. On intellectual diversity and differences that may not make a difference 9. Whiteliness and institutional racism: hiding behind (un)conscious bias