Thread by @itsAlexCL

NGL, next to the Presidential Address, this is the ASHE event I've been waiting for since the program schedule was announced! Looking forward to learning from @victorerikray, @DeborahS_phd, @AirealeJoi, @spamfriedrice, @ldgonzales1, & @HMccambly in the next session! #ASHE2021 🧵

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@spamfriedrice kicks us off, discussing @victorerikray's theory of racialized organizations (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…), connecting it to the work of other critical scholars, and how it might better help us interrogate higher education #ASHE2021

@victorerikray draws our attention to the national moral panic re: teaching race and racism in schools and colleges in the US, and the inherent riskiness of race-based researching this moment #racializedorganizations #ASHE2021

@victorerikray references the work done by @highcountrynews and their work on land-grab universities, which is definitely work checking out! #racializedorganizations #ASHE2021 hcn.org/issues/52.4/in…

@victorerikray points out that last summer's "racial reckoning" in some ways became parody but also sparked a backlash and moral panic about race with little progress evident. #racializedorganizations #ASHE2021

Yes! @victorerikray raises the racial dimensions of barring UF professors from testifying about voting rights, a downstream effect that may constrict racially minoritized folks' agency #racializedorganizations #ASHE2021

Diversity was the compromise position between remedies for historical injustice and race-aversive approaches to education, and now even that is under attack in this moment #racializedorganizations #ASHE2021

Like @AirealeJoi said, if you haven't engaged with the Boriken Syllabus, get on it #racializedorganizations #ASHE2021 ashe.ws/borikensyllabus

Racial meaning making is mediated by the ways people engage with one another, and look no further than classrooms to understand how racial schemas are at work in postsecondary education // @AirealeJoi #racializedorganizations #ASHE2021

As postsecondary institutions want to invest in anti-racism efforts, it is critical to understand how race becomes real and operationalized in classroom spaces // @AirealeJoi #racializedorganizations #ASHE2021

Up next, @ldgonzales1 speaking on faculty evaluation processes in the context of hiring #racializedorganizations #ASHE2021

How do we construct and award legitimacy at the level of faculty and organizations in higher education? This is one of the key questions in @ldgonzales1's work #racializedorganizations #ASHE2021

A theory of racialized organizations helps explain how hierarchies and processes become embued in whiteness in ways that become normalized and legitimized // @ldgonzales1 #racializedorganizations #ASHE2021

The academic disciplines are legacies of territorial logics of colonialism; they are constructed to make subjects distinct and segmented // @ldgonzales1 #racializedorganizations #ASHE2021

In times of crisis, we tend to fall back on processes and hierarchies that rely on whiteness continue to make higher education institutions very risk-averse organizations // @ldgonzales1 #racializedorganizations #ASHE2021

Here's one of a few publications from @CJPPhD, @ginnyjonesboss, @drcmmoore, @TeeJDeePhD, and Dave Louis that @ldgonzales1 referenced! #ASHE2021 #racializedorganizations tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Up next, @DeborahS_phd discusses how whiteness in HE organizations affects graduate leaders' agency #ASHE2021 #racializedorganizations

Most efforts to make DEI changes were temporary, often dependent on leader-driven change rather than embedding more just practices in organizations themselves // @DeborahS_phd #ASHE2021 #racializedorganizations

We are all VERY excited, @HMccambly! #ASHE2021 #racializedorganizations

Next up, @HMccambly discusses #racializedorganizations as a lens to understand postsecondary philanthropy and grantmaking #ASHE2021

Grantmaking is a racialized practice, and examining it through this lens may get us closer to a better distribution of resources that are more equity-minded // @HMccambly #ASHE2021 #racializedorganizations

Rather than emphasizing learning and institutional transformation, grantors often look more at individual-level, deficit-laden variables to make funding decisions // @HMccambly #ASHE2021 #racializedorganizations

@HMccambly calls on public and private grantors to rethink their ontological attunement and what they believe are the purposes of higher education to better disrupt the embedded whiteness/racialization in their funding criteria #ASHE2021 #racializedorganizations

Bringing us home for panel comments is @spamfriedrice discussing race-conscious admissions from a #racializedorganizations lens #ASHE2021

It is not enough to train people or have them committed to principles of racial equity/justice if their daily norms and routines limit what is possible in admissions policies // @spamfriedrice #racializedorganizations #ASHE2021

At the end of the day, institutions are admitting for revenue and balancing their budgets. Racial capitalism gives us a lens to understand how white dominance becomes a goal of these outcomes // @spamfriedrice #racializedorganizations #ASHE2021

How can we recognize the racialized organizations we work within on a daily basis, how might we change institutional imperatives to then change the daily norms and routines that might lead us to new outcomes? // @spamfriedrice #racializedorganizations #ASHE2021

To @tjjourian's question, my own thoughts: each of the tenets of #racializedorganizations scream to me a rich analysis of LGBTQ centers! @thequeerjane's early work on diversity orgs starts to get at some of the things @victorerikray concretizes! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1525/so…

The way I took in a breath at @bakerdphd's question in the Q&A: "Is there a world where racialized organizations do not exist in the US? If not, is the goal to create policies and practices that reduce the harms?" #racializedorganizations #ASHE2021

Appreciative to @spamfriedrice for talking about the small moves that may be big wins paired with @victorerikray's pointing out of a collective, direct action that is confrontational - both of these can move the needle much more than we think! #ASHE2021 #racializedorganizations

Yes, @AirealeJoi! It is when we settle for the small shifts and tweaks that the work becomes less transformative! #racializedorganizations #ASHE2021

Also, I missed part of it but believe this was the pub @victorerikray was referring to with @louise_seamster! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… #ASHE2021 #racializedorganizations

Thank *you* @AirealeJoi, @DeborahS_phd, @spamfriedrice, @HMccambly, @ldgonzales1, and @victorerikray for such a 🔥🔥🔥 virtual symposium! #racializedorganizations #ASHE2021