ReSearching Diversity: Recent Episodes
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Join a group of six women in social sciences in their aim to increase visibility of inspiring social scientists and of cutting-edge research focusing on ethnic, cultural, and migration-related diversity. Each episode two hosts invite one outstanding scientist to discuss their past (personal path into academia), the present (a research article that has recently inspired them in their work), and the future (recent developments and paradigm shifts in the world of academia and social sciences). Make sure to check out our website: https://www.researchingdiversity.com
In this episode, we spoke with Paul Gorski who is Paul Gorski, the founder of the Equity Literacy Institute, U.S.
PAST (00:01:47): Paul shares how during college years he developed an interest in social justice while being aware of his own privileged identities in academia. Later, when Paul was a professor, he also became interested in activist burnout, meaning the stress-related symptoms and illnesses that may occur among activists who tend to work in highly stressful and unpredictable environments.
PRESENT (00:13:20): Paul discusses an award lecture by Gloria Ladson-Billings (2009) on teacher education and how novice teachers have been using the word “culture” as an explanation for student behavior they cannot explain. Furthermore, Paul explains the concept of equity literacy, encourages the listeners to rethink the role of “culture” in teacher education with the goal of making teacher education more transformative and powerful.
FUTURE (00:37:00): In this final section, Paul dives deeper into burnout among social justice activists (activist burnout), the link between activism and depression, and the healing potential of talking openly about mental health struggles.
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FULL REFERENCES OF THIS EPISODE AND USEFUL LINKS:
Gorski, P. (2016). Rethinking the Role of “Culture” in Educational Equity: From Cultural Competence to Equity Literacy. Multicultural Perspectives, 18(4), 221–226. https://doi.org/10.1080/15210960.2016.1228344
Gorski, P. C. (2019). Fighting racism, battling burnout: Causes of activist burnout in US racial justice activists. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 42(5), 667–687. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2018.1439981
*Ladson-Billings, G. (2006). It’s Not the Culture of Poverty, It’s the Poverty of Culture: The Problem with Teacher Education. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 37(2), 104–109. https://doi.org/10.1525/aeq.2006.37.2.104
Ladson-Billings, G. (2014). Culturally Relevant Pedagogy 2.0: A.k.a. the Remix. Harvard Educational Review, 84(1), 74–84. https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.84.1.p2rj131485484751
FURTHER INSPIRING AUTHOR MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
Christine Sleeter
In this episode, we talked to Tiffany Florvil who is an Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, United States. Our main topics are Black German history and the normalization of whiteness as well as the history of race and racism in Europe.
PAST (00:02:10): Tiffany describes her own experiences with racism while studying in Germany and how it sparked her interest in Black German experiences, Black German culture, and racism against People of Color in Germany. She talks about African Diaspora, the colonial past, and the normalization of Whiteness in Germany and Europe. Also, Tiffany explains the significance of intersectionality when writing about Black European history.
PRESENT (00:27:30): We discuss Black women in the French self-imagination of the 19th century, based on the book by Robin Mitchell (2020). Among other things, this book illustrates how science is never subjective but always shaped by societal and cultural dynamics of the times.
FUTURE (00:37:35): Tiffany explains why Germany needs more Black scholars and professors of Color. Furthermore, she explains why we need to look into the past to understand how race and exclusion function in the present.
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Full references of this episode:
Ayim, M., Oguntoye, K., & Schultz, D. (2021). Farbe bekennen: Afro-deutsche Frauen auf den Spuren ihrer Geschichte (3. Auflage). Orlanda.
El-Tayeb, F. (2001). Schwarze Deutsche: Der Diskurs um “Rasse” und nationale Identität 1890-1933. Campus.
Florvil, T. N. (2020). Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German women and the making of a transnational movement. University of Illinois Press.
Mitchell, R. (2020). Vénus noire: Black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France*. The University of Georgia Press.
Further inspiring authors mentioned in this episode:
May Ayim, Audre Lorde, Maisha-Maureen Auma, Tina Campt, Pricilla Layne, Michelle M. Wright, Peggy Piesche, Fatima El-Tayeb, and Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw.
In this episode, we talked to Prof. Dr. Andreas Zick who is the Scientific Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG) and Professor at the Faculty of Educational Science at Bielefeld University, Germany. Our main topics are social identity theory and intergroup conflict, but also diversity in German scientific institutions and the link between research and society.
PAST (00:02:03): Andreas describes his personal academic journey along key, including contributing to the first cross-European survey on prejudice and racism. Here he addresses analytical challenges, challenges of establishing research on sensitive societal issues, and challenges in the German academic system.
PRESENT (00:28:25): We discuss social identity theory of intergroup behavior by Tajfel & Turner (1986) and how it has changed research on intergroup conflicts.
FUTURE (00:36:17): Andreas emphasizes that academia and universities, especially in Germany, should open up to diversity. He gives concrete ideas of what this can look like. He concludes by arguing for a stronger link between expertise/research and society as well as thinking beyond one's own scientific discipline.
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Full reference of this episode’s articles:
Tajfel, H., & Turner, J. C. (1979). An integrative theory of intergroup conflict. In W. G. Austin, & S. Worchel (Eds.), The social psychology of intergroup relations (pp. 33-37). Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Tajfel, H., & Turner, J. C. (1986). The Social Identity Theory of Intergroup Behavior. In: S. Worchel & W. G. Austin (Eds.), Psychology of Intergroup Relation (pp. 7-24). Chicago: Hall Publishers.
In this episode, we spoke with Gülseli Baysu who is a Lecturer at the Queen's University of Belfast, U.K. As a psychologist she focusses, among other things, on cultural diversity, discrimination, and Muslim minorities in Europe. In this episode we talk about the awareness of ethnic/racial discrimination and how it relates to youth well-being, and inequalities regarding Western and non-Western research samples in psychology.
PAST (00:01:43): Gülseli talks about her experiences as a “first-generation university student”, meaning that she was the first one in her family to attend university and to follow an academic career. She talks about how she draws motivation from working on interventions, policies, and strategies to advance social justice and to promote positive diversity climate in schools.
PRESENT (00:10:33): Gülseli discusses the meta-analysis by Benner et al. (2018), where study results from many countries are combined to better understand how perceived racial/ethnic discrimination is related to youth well-being. We discuss why only few studies are included from outside the U.S. and how schools can provide coping strategies to better prepare students for dealing with discrimination. Definitions for “discrimination” are given.
FUTURE (00:29:20): Gülseli emphasizes how important it is to have more research with non-Western, non-White participants (samples). We explain more in detail how a scientific article usually gets published, biases and flaws of the peer-review process, and how problematic it is that access to scientific literature is different between countries and regions.
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Full reference of this episode’s article:
Benner, A. D., Wang, Y., Shen, Y., Boyle, A. E., Polk, R., & Cheng, Y. P. (2018). Racial/ethnic discrimination and well-being during adolescence: A meta-analytic review. American Psychologist, 73(7), 855. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000204
In this episode, we talked to Josefina Bañales who is an Assistant Professor in the Community and Prevention Research Area at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC, U.S.). Our main topics are critical consciousness and how social scientists can learn ‘with’, ‘from’ and ‘from within’ marginalized communities through participatory action research.
PAST (00:02:03): Josefina describes her personal connection and dedication to the well-being and liberation of low-income, communities of color and how sharing people’s stories has helped create knowledge about her own and other communities
PRESENT (00:22:38): We discuss the article by Watts & Flanagan (2007) about youth civic engagement and how youth have opportunities to develop critical understandings of oppression shape whether and how they engage in behaviors to challenge social justice
FUTURE (00:44:14): Josefina emphasizes the need for more youth participatory action research to bring about social change and for looking into intersectionality to actually contribute positively to the communities and the lives of people of color that we research
Learn the Term (plain language):
| critical consciousness: Awareness of oppression and working against oppression together
| marginalized: Undervalued, in a powerless position (social, political, economic)
| participatory action research: The collaboration between (young) participants and researcher to take action and understand social issues
| intersectionality: the acknowledgement that everyone has their own unique experiences of discrimination and oppression and that categories such as gender, race and class are overlapping in discrimination or disadvantage
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Full reference of this episode’s articles:
Bañales, J., Aldana, A., Richards‐Schuster, K., Flanagan, C. A., Diemer, M. A., & Rowley, S. J. (2021). Youth anti‐racism action: Contributions of youth perceptions of school racial messages and critical consciousness. Journal of Community Psychology, 49(8), 3079–3100. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22266
Stuart, J., & Ward, C. (2011). A Question of Balance: Exploring the Acculturation, Watts, R. J., & Flanagan, C. (2007). Pushing the envelope on youth civic engagement: A developmental and liberation psychology perspective. Journal of Community Psychology, 35*(6), 779–792. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.20178
[GERMAN EPISODE] In dieser ersten deutschsprachigen Episode unseres Podcasts haben wir mit Prof. Dr. Karim Fereidooni über institutionelle Rassismuserfahrungen und Rassismuskritik in der deutschen Forschungs- und Bildungslandschaft gesprochen. Prof. Fereidooni ist Juniorprofessor für Didaktik der sozialwissenschaftlichen Bildung an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
VERGANGENHEIT (00:01:02 – 00:19:13) Prof. Fereidooni teilt seinen Zugang zum wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten, seine Motivationsgründe über Rassismus zu forschen und Herausforderungen und Chancen, die sich für ihn als ehemals praktizierenden Lehrer und aktiven Wissenschaftler ergeben.
GEGENWART (00:19:13 – 00:54:50) Prof. Fereidooni bringt einen Text über Distanzierungsmuster von Rassismus von Astrid Messerschmidt (2010) mit. Bezugnehmend zu seiner Studie verdeutlicht er Gründe, warum sich weiße Menschen nicht mit Rassismus beschäftigen. Nachdem ausgewählte Definitionen des Begriffs Rassismus erläutert werden, diskutieren wir, inwiefern sich der Umgang mit Rassismuskritik in Universitäten und Schulen unterscheidet.
ZUKUNFT (00:54:50 – 01:02:04) Prof. Fereidooni wünscht sich, dass Rassismus und Diskriminierung als Querschnittsaufgabe der Gesellschaft betrachtet werden. So seien mehr Raum und Offenheit für rassismuskritische Forschung und Bildung sowie ein unterstützendes Netzwerk der Schlüssel, dass sich motivierte Personen nachhaltig mit dieser Thematik auseinandersetzen.
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English summary
In this episode, we spoke with Prof. Dr. Karim Fereidooni about experiences and criticism of racism in educational institutions in Germany. He is an assistant professor for didactics of social science education at the Ruhr University Bochum.
PAST (00:01:02 – 00:19:13) Prof. Fereidooni shares his perspective on academic work, his motivation for doing research on racism and the challenges and opportunities he faces as a former practicing teacher and active scholar.
PRESENT (00:19:13 – 00:54:50) Prof. Fereidooni presents a text on distancing patterns from racism by Astrid Messerschmidt (2010). In relation to his study, he clarifies reasons why white people do not engage with racism. After explaining selected definitions of racism, we discuss how dealing with critiques of racism differs in university or school settings.
FUTURE (00:54:50 – 01:02:04) Prof. Fereidooni would like to see racism and discrimination as a cross-cutting issue in society. More space and openness for critical research and education on racism, as well as a supportive network, are key for motivated individuals to address this issue in a sustainable way
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In this episode, we talked to Mehmet Day who is a researcher at the Verwey-Jonker Institute and a Ph.D. student at Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands). Our main topics are combining multiple cultural identities and how educational research and practice can benefit from one another.
PAST (00:02:00): Mehmet tells us about his own experiences, about being the first researcher in his family and about struggling to find academic role models.
PRESENT (00:11:54): We discuss the article by Stuart & Ward (2011) about different strategies for balancing and negotiating multiple cultural identities, with the example of Muslim youth in New Zealand and their experiences.
FUTURE (00:26:22): Mehmet talks about the importance of moving beyond the dual identity framework and of doing research that is informed and guided by questions from educational practice.
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In this episode, we talked to Marta Miklikowska who is an associate professor of Psychology at Umeå University (Sweden). Our main topics are prejudice, intergroup contact, and how activism and progressive policies can improve the representation of women in academia.
PAST (00:01:35): Marta tells us about her own experiences with migration, prejudice, and the imposter syndrome in a male-dominated profession. She also elaborates the current situation of woman in academic leadership positions and gives some advice for young researchers on how to navigate the early years in an academic career.
PRESENT (00:15:45): We discuss the article by Dixon et al. (2012) on new directions in research on prejudice and intergroup contact and how we can formulate research questions that bring us closer to creating more just, equal societies.
FUTURE (00:30:00): Marta talks about the positive effects of female faculty, about tackling gender inequalities through progressive policies, and about the power of activism and collective action.
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In this episode, we talked to Moin Syed who is a professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota (U.S.). Our main topics are gender identity and master narratives, gender socialization, academic practices in psychology, and the Open Science framework.
PAST (00:01:56): We learn how Moin turned his personal experience of being treated differently from others and his interest in identity and development into a fascinating research subject. Moin also talks about methodological inconsistencies, issues and challenges of implementing new methods in the established domain of developmental psychology.
PRESENT (00:18:38): Moin presents an outstanding paper from Onnie Rogers (2020), which gives a new perspective about gender socialization of children through the master identity narratives framework. He discusses how people could find intersecting identities and alternative gender narratives both at individual and societal levels.
FUTURE (00:36:29): Moin talks about the future of social sciences and how the Open Science framework can help to change the research conventions in psychology.
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In this episode, we talk to Tendai Chitewere who is an associate professor of geography and environment at San Francisco State University (U.S.) and a visiting professor in the department of Inclusive Education at the University of Potsdam (Germany). Our main topics are proactive inclusion, environmental justice, and the chances and challenges for educators of color.
PAST (00:02:20): We learn about Tendai's fascinating academic journey from studying water resources/hydrology to addressing social and environmental justice in broadly defined environments, including schools.
PRESENT (00:12:15): We discuss an inspiring research article by Taylor, Paul, & McCoy (2019) about structures of exclusion and inequality in environmental organizations.
FUTURE (00:31:35): Tendai elaborates on the concept of proactive inclusion and how communities and schools can create an environment for valuing race and ethnicity.
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In this episode, we talk to Yudit Namer who is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Public Health at Bielefeld University (Germany). Our main topics are discrimination and othering and how they relate to the health of different generations of migrants.
PAST (00:02:10): We learn how Yudit has been combining her different professional roles as therapist, researcher, and teacher.
PRESENT (00:14:54): We discuss an inspiring research article by Viruell-Fuentes (2007) on immigration, discrimination, and health
research among Mexicans in the United States.
FUTURE (00:30:17): Yudit elaborates on relational justice, relational ethics, and de-colonizing practices in research.
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In our first episode, we talk to Linda Juang who is a professor of Inclusive Education at the University of Potsdam (Germany). Our main topic is racial-ethnic socialization, meaning how parents communicate about race and ethnicity with their children.
PAST (00:02:32): Linda describes her own path into higher education, how she was inspired to continue in academia by a lecturer of color, and how her research interests have influenced her own parenting.
PRESENT (00:12:13): We discuss the article by Hughes et al. (2008) on understanding ethnic socialization processes in ethnically diverse families. Besides parents, we discuss how schools in Germany can address issues of racism.
FUTURE (00:29:27): Linda elaborates on the future or racial-ethnic socialization research and the potential of (academic) mentors for underrepresented students in higher education.
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Join a group of six women in social sciences in their aim to increase visibility of inspiring social scientists and of cutting-edge research focusing on ethnic, cultural, and migration-related diversity.