Join the College of Education Studies on Thursday, February 1, 2024, 4:30 at FISK302 for our Colloquium talk by Tadashi Dozono.
Dozono will talk about his book Discipline Problems: How Students of Color Trouble Whiteness in Schools (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming May 2024), which reframes troublemaking from a behavioral deficit in students of color to an intellectual asset and distinct form of reasoning. This ethnography applies a queer of color abolitionist method to center the thinking of twelve tenth-grade Black and Latinx students from a small New York City public high school. Whereas the disciplining and punishment of Black and Latinx youth often gets framed through the disciplining of bodies, Dozono resituates the problem of systemic violence towards Black and Latinx youth within classroom content and pedagogy, through the disciplining of minds. By naming the reasoning of students of color as a form of generative trouble, this book centers students’ insights into how schools marginalize and punish them for not adhering to the school’s systemic whiteness.
Tadashi Dozono is an assistant professor of history/social science education at California State University Channel Islands. His research applies cultural studies, ethnic studies, queer theory, and critical theory to emphasize accountability towards the experiences of marginalized students in social studies classrooms. Tadashi draws on over twelve years of teaching social studies in New York City public schools as a queer Japanese American. His research has been published in journals including Theory & Research in Social Education, Critical Studies in Education, Race Ethnicity and Education, Urban Review, Theory into Practice, and Equity & Excellence in Education.
