The Division of Social Sciences Spring 2022 Luncheon Seminar Series

Speaker: Gonzalo Guzmán, Visiting Assistant Professor of Educational Studies

Date/Time:  Feb. 24th 12-1pm

Location: Hybrid event.

-in person: 27 Persson Auditorium

-zoom registration link: https://colgate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvf-yprTMsH9ULbaL4aZ4eSxiOJ8l39jNs

Lunch: Grab & go lunches available after talk w/ vegetarian options, while supplies last. Outside of Auditorium.

Title: Education For a New Race: Making Whites and Schooling the Mexican in Greater Juan Crow

Brief description: What has been the historical relationship of public schools and education policy in creating race; in creating Whites? By looking at the experiences of ethnic Mexican communities in the Mountain West—Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, and especially Wyoming—in the first half of the 20th Century(1917-1956), I argue that education policy was the apotheosis of racialization finalizing the boundaries of White and Non-Whites, specifically the Mexican and White races. In other words, schools made and were the architects of the White race. 

The next talk in this series is on Mar. 10th with Professor Helepololei (SOAN).