Blackness & Measurement.
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| Title: | Blackness & Measurement. |
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| Authors: | Dixon-Román, Ezekiel (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Educational Studies. Jul/Aug2025, Vol. 61 Issue 4, p403-416. 14p. |
| Subjects: | Measurement, Racial capitalism, Mathematical forms, Racial identity of Black people, Sociotechnical systems, Colonies, Educational tests & measurements, Biopolitics (Philosophy) |
| Abstract: | This lecture, delivered as the 2021 AESA George Frederick Kneller Lecture, focuses on the particular and entangled relationship between Blackness and measurement. More specifically, this lecture is interested in continuing Black radical thought's interrogation of the category of the human, building upon the work of others in Black studies to develop an articulation of Blackness that is situated in technopolitical systems, one that is inseparable from the logics of racial capitalism, and demonstrating via particular terms of Modernity how the colonial formation of the post-Enlightenment subject configures in the logic and practice of measurement, including in the axiomatics of the mathematics of quantification. It is argued that racialism was a grounding concept to the development of the discursive practices of measurement. This intervention is traced through a few examples of statistical methods that are foundational to educational measurement, speaking to their broad reaching implications and the work they have long done and will continue to do in the biopolitics of disabling and debilitating racialized populations. In light of these interventions, the lecture leaves off by discussing the generative force of the creative indeterminacies of Blackness and the potentiality for enabling a fugitivity in the onto-epistemologies of technopolitical systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Abstract: | This lecture, delivered as the 2021 AESA George Frederick Kneller Lecture, focuses on the particular and entangled relationship between Blackness and measurement. More specifically, this lecture is interested in continuing Black radical thought's interrogation of the category of the human, building upon the work of others in Black studies to develop an articulation of Blackness that is situated in technopolitical systems, one that is inseparable from the logics of racial capitalism, and demonstrating via particular terms of Modernity how the colonial formation of the post-Enlightenment subject configures in the logic and practice of measurement, including in the axiomatics of the mathematics of quantification. It is argued that racialism was a grounding concept to the development of the discursive practices of measurement. This intervention is traced through a few examples of statistical methods that are foundational to educational measurement, speaking to their broad reaching implications and the work they have long done and will continue to do in the biopolitics of disabling and debilitating racialized populations. In light of these interventions, the lecture leaves off by discussing the generative force of the creative indeterminacies of Blackness and the potentiality for enabling a fugitivity in the onto-epistemologies of technopolitical systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 00131946 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00131946.2025.2550024 |
