The Center of Work on Race and Education at the Annenberg Institute provides an inclusive space to:
- Rethink how we interrogate race and education.
- Generate theoretically informed rigorous scholarship on the impact of race on students’ educational experiences, opportunities, and outcomes.
- Engage with and learn from a broad community invested in racial justice.
- Create a bold vision for racially just education rooted in engaged scholarship and innovative policy and practice-based efforts to challenge racial inequity.
Rethinking Race and Education Seminar Series
The Rethinking Race and Education Seminar provides a space to engage with evolving interdisciplinary ideas about race and education.
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Feb
16Rethinking Race and Education SeminarOdis Johnson Jr.
Critical Quantitative Methods, ICQCM Co-Director01:00pm-02:00pm | 164 Angell St., 2nd floor, Providence, RI 02906 -
Feb
23Rethinking Race and Education SeminarVictor Ray
Author of On Critical Race Theory04:00pm-05:30pm | 305 Pembroke Hall, 172 Meeting St, Providence, RI 02912
Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America -
Mar
22Rethinking Race and Education Seminarkihana ross
Antiblackness and Education05:30pm-07:00pm | 102 Friedman Hall, Brown University
Co-sponsored with the Brown Department of Education -
Apr
04Rethinking Race and Education SeminarMark Warren
Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline04:00pm-05:30pm | Location: 339 Eddy St, Providence, RI 02903 -
May
01Rethinking Race and Education SeminarStacey Lee
Resisting Asian American Invisibility01:00pm-02:00pm | Location: 164 Angell St., 2nd floor, Providence, RI 02906
Race and Education Workshop
The Race and Education Workshop is a space for Brown community members to engage in dialogue around vital race and education issues in an informal setting.
Research on Race and Education
The CALL-ECL explores how eight of the largest urban US school districts seek to transform their schools through equity-centered leadership.
PAVED Research is an initiative to produce and promote cutting-edge research on democratic innovation, racial justice, and public policy – particularly education policy.
Other projects on race and education…
Publications
Books
Lewis, A. E., & Diamond, J. B. (2015). Despite the best intentions: How racial inequality thrives in good schools. New York, NY: Oxford University Press
Journal Articles, Book Chapters, & Working Papers
Diamond, J. B., Posey-Maddox, L., & Velazquez, M. (2021). Reframing suburbs: Race, place, and opportunity in suburban educational spaces. Educational Researcher, 50(4): 249–255.
Diamond, J. B., & Posey-Maddox, L. (Eds.) (2020). The changing terrain of the suburbs: Examining race, class, and place in suburban schools and communities [Symposium issue]. Equity and Excellence in Education.
Diamond, J. B., & Lewis, A. E. (2022). Opportunity hoarding and the maintenance of “White” educational space. American Behavioral Scientist. First published online May 2022.
Diamond, J. B. (2018). Race and white supremacy in the sociology of education: Shifting the intellectual gaze. In J. Mehta & S. Davies (Eds.), Education in a new society: renewing the sociology of education (pp. 345–362). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Diamond, J. B., & Spillane, J. P. (2016). School leadership & management from a distributed perspective: A 2016 retrospective and prospective [Special issue on distributed leadership]. Management in Education, 30(4), 147–154. doi: 10.1177/0892020616665938.
Diamond, J. B., & Huguley, J. P. (2014).** Testing the oppositional culture explanation in desegregated suburban schools: The impact of racial differences in achievement orientations on academic performance. Social Forces, 93(2), 747-777. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/
Civic Engagement and Partnerships
People
John Diamond
John B. Diamond (Director) is Professor of Sociology and Education Policy at Brown University. Before coming to Brown, he was the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education and Professor of Education at Wisconsin – Madison. A sociologist of race and education, he studies the relationship between social inequality and educational opportunity, examining how educational leadership, policies, and practices operate through school organizations to shape students' educational opportunities and outcomes. Diamond has published widely in sociology and education journals and is the co-author of Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools (with Amanda Lewis) and Distributed Leadership in Practice (co-edited with James Spillane). Diamond is currently writing a new book, Defending the Color Line, on race and education.
His current research focuses on race, leadership, and organizational change in urban and suburban schools. He recently received a major grant from the Wallace Foundation to study the development and implementation of equity-centered principal pipelines in several school districts across the United States with colleagues from UW-Madison and other institutions.
An engaged scholar, Diamond is an Advisory Board Member of the American Sociological Association's Sociology Action Network and a National Planning Team Member of the Urban Research Action Network (URBAN). He is the co-editor of Sociology of Education (with Odis Johnson Jr).
Faculty
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Land Acknowledgement
Brown has developed an official land acknowledgment as part of a set of commitments to build a better understanding of the relationship between the University, the Indigenous peoples of this region, and the land on which Brown is situated.
These commitments include a formal land acknowledgment statement to recognize, honor and create a meaningful acknowledgment of the Narragansett Indian Tribe and their connection to the land on College Hill, as well as a commitment to strengthen investment in scholarship and education. Land acknowledgment often is considered as a first step in a process of truth-telling and a commitment to building understanding of, and accountability to, a history of dispossession.
"Brown University is located in Providence, Rhode Island, on lands that are within the ancestral homelands of the Narragansett Indian Tribe. We acknowledge that beginning with colonization and continuing for centuries the Narragansett Indian Tribe have been dispossessed of most of their ancestral lands in Rhode Island by the actions of individuals and institutions. We acknowledge our responsibility to understand and respond to those actions. The Narragansett Indian Tribe, whose ancestors stewarded these lands with great care, continues as a sovereign nation today. We commit to working together to honor our past and build our future with truth."
For more information about this acknowledgment, its development, and the action it is meant to inspire, please visit landacknowledgment.