Faculty

- Title
- Assistant Professor Critical Studies
- Division Social Sciences Division
- Department
- Education Department
- Affiliations Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Phone 831-502-0105
- Office Location
- McHenry Library, 3159
- Mail Stop Education Department
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 96064
Summary of Expertise
Critical Social Theory
Violence and Critical Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class in Education
Urban Education
Decolonial, Black Feminist, and Afro-pessimist Thought in Education
Ethnography
Research Interests
Antiblackness and education; theorizations of punishment and care in schooling; racialized discourses of neoliberalism; restorative justice in education; racial capitalism; youth cultures and intersections of race, class, and gender
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D. Social and Cultural Studies of Education, UC Berkeley
M.A. Social and Cultural Studies of Education, UC Berkeley
B.A. Tufts University
Honors, Awards and Grants
Concha Delgado Gaitán Early Career Presidential Fellowship, Council of Anthropology in Education (CAE) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), 2020
Selected Publications
Jibrin, Rekia. “Ain’t I a Feminist?: The Politics of Gender Violence, Anti-violence, and
Education in Oakland.” Special issue: “Embodying Violence”. Gender, Place and
Culture—A Journal of Feminist Geography, June 2017.
Jibrin, Rekia. “An Open Letter to Alameda County’s Plaintiff’s Bar: ‘What is Black life
worth today?’” The Verdict, Association of Southern California Defense Counsel. Spring
2016.
“The Possibilities and Challenges Implementing Restorative Justice in Schools.” Discipline Over Punishment: Successes and Struggles with Restorative Justice in
Schools. Trevor Gardner. Rowman and Little Publishers. 2016, 95-105.
Jibrin, Rekia & Salem, Sara, “Critiquing Intersectionality: Implications for Theory and
Praxis.” Trans-Scripts Journal, “Race and Gender Revisited,” June 2015.
“Disciplinary Learning and Youth Cultural Resources”. Nancy Ares. Youth-full
Production: Cultural Practices, Agency, and the Construction of Social Space. Peter
Lang Publishing, 2010, 235-243.
Selected Recordings
Rekia Jibrin, Amanda Lashaw, and Andrea Vazquez. "New Approaches to the Study of Anti-Blackness in Education". Virtual podcast conference session at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) 2021 Annual Meeting. This session explored the different and contested ways that anti-Blackness is theorized in the field of education. (Co-sponsored by the Council on Anthropology and Education & the Society for The Anthropology of North America.)