Gilberto Q. Conchas To Give Talk, “Complicating Urban Success among Black and Chicano High School Boys: 1999, 2009, and 2019”

Education & Inequality Workshop: Gilberto Q. Conchas, The Hoy Endowed Professor, Educational Policy Studies, Pennsylvania State University

Complicating Urban Success among Black and Chicano High School Boys: 1999, 2009, and 2019

January 22, 2021 @ noon, register here

Through a racial formation perspective, this talk explores how African American and Chicano high school boys perceive their social mobility during three time periods and in three distinct educational contexts—1999, 2009, and 2019.

In Fall of 2020, Gilberto Q. Conchas started his inaugural position as The Wayne K. and Anita Woolfolk Hoy Endowed Professor in Educational Policy Studies to promote diversity, equity and inclusion at Penn State University’s College of Education. Conchas received his bachelor’s degree in sociology from UC Berkeley as well as his master’s and doctorate in sociology from the University of Michigan. His research on issues of social inequality in education is published in numerous peer-reviewed scholarly journals, including Urban Education, Journal of Latino Studies, Harvard Educational Review, Review of the Sociology of Education, Urban Review, Education and Urban Society, and Teachers College Record. Conchas is the author and co-author of nine books; his most recent book, “The Chicanx/o/a Dream: Hope, Resistance, and Educational Success” (2020), is published by Harvard Education Press.