Violent Schools: Addressing the Barriers to Racial, Gender, and Class Justice

The Ethnography in Education Research Forum presents a talk from Dr. Ranita Ray, sociologist and ethnographer of education, race, gender, and class. She is the author of the book The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City. Her next book, Violent Schools, is an unflinching exposé of the American public education system’s indifference toward Black, brown, immigrant, queer, and economically marginalized children and the “slow violence” that fashions schools into hostile work and learning environments.

Ray researches, writes, and speaks primarily about teacher racism; K–12 schools as hostile institutions; gendered racial violence in education; and social mobility and racialized poverty. She is currently associate professor and Baca Zinn Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico.

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