Rethinking race/class intersections in education Seminar
Event details
Concrete and abstract forms of domination
Intersectionality has become a commonly-used paradigm in education theorising but there is a danger in doing so that the specificity of oppressive relations is lost. In this seminar, the work of Marx, Postone and Du Bois are used to consider the specificity of race in capitalism. The distinction between 'abstract' and 'concrete' forms of racial domination may enable us to understand the current anxiety around the white working class in education as being one between capital and concrete forms of domination rather than being between 'race' and 'class'.
Speaker information
Professor John Preston , Cass School of Education, University of East London. John Preston is Professor of Education at UEL. His research interests are in critical whiteness studies / race theory applied to education and pedagogy. Most recently this work has been on disaster education and inequalities in lifelong learning although he has also written on freedom of speech in HE; vocational courses; adult education and the benefits of learning. His work also deals with inequalities in terms of class, gender, sexuality and disability and how these intersect with 'race'.