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Dr. Eve L. Ewing is a sociologist, author, poet, and visual artist. She was born and raised in Chicago, IL. To date, she is a tenured professor at the University of Chicago.

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How did your sociologist push the discipline of Sociology forward?

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How did your sociologist push the discipline of Sociology forward?

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Dr. Ewing's research and study encompasses racism, social inequality, and urban policy and how these factors influence and affect the public education system and the lives of young people. A unique of her kind, she is referred to as a qualitative sociologist of education. Her work is centered around two main questions. One, how do racism and other large-scale structures of social inequality impact the everyday lives and experiences of young people, especially youth of color? Secondly, how can K-12 public school systems serve to interrupt or perpetuate these social problems, and what role can educators, policymakers, families, community members, and young people themselves play in understanding, acknowledging, and disrupting them? Dr. Eve L. Ewing has pushed the discipline forward by enforcing the theory of intersectionality and how conflicting minority identities can affect the social and economic lives of people.

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How did this person contribute to the way we think or talk about “public education?"

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How did this person contribute to the way we think or talk about “public education?"

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Many are aware of the racial disparity and inequity inside our educational system. Most people stem back this issue to simple things such as slavery or jim crow laws. However, Dr. Ewing provides a unique analysis of this. She says that you cannot study these people without studying their history as well as the history of the educational system. In her book 1919, she reviews the tragic Chicago Race Riot of 1919. More specifically she presents the deadliest event of the Chicago Race Riot referred to as the "Red Summer." Over the course of eight days, there were at least 30 known deaths and 500 injuries. "Ewing uses speculative and Afrofuturist lenses to recast history, and illuminates the thin line between the past and the present (Kaitlin Smith 2020)." With this, Ewing presents a unique perspective on how sociologists, educators, and historians look at the issues that exist in the public education system.

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Which perspective of Sociology would this person most be aligned with (symbolic interactionism, functionalism, conflict theory)?

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Which perspective of Sociology would this person most be aligned with (symbolic interactionism, functionalism, conflict theory)?

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I believe Dr. Ewing would most align with conflict theory. Because conflict theory explains the existence of inequity, why some groups have power, and why others are oppressed. Dr. Ewing uses her historical knowledge to explain how conflict theory affects the education system's racial inequities.

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1) Were they responding to another sociologist? If so, what were their new/different thoughts? 2) Were there any people or groups that pushed back against this person’s thoughts or ideas?

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1) Were they responding to another sociologist? If so, what were their new/different thoughts? 2) Were there any people or groups that pushed back against this person’s thoughts or ideas?

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I could not find her responding to any other sociologists. All the research done refers to her own research, theory, and historical references. I also could not find any people or groups pushing back outside the controversy she had on twitter about her comic Ironheart, which was explained in another question.

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Dr. Ewing has used her platform and experience to advocate for racial disparities as often as possible. In her very extended resume, she worked with Marvel as an author of several comics. One specific comic ent titled 'Ironheart' is about a black female superhero.  In her writing of the comic, she champions inclusion and diversity so girls who look like her can relate to a superhero. However, her work received lots of pushback and controversy. She says in an interview "Some of them used coded language like 'forced diversity.' Other messages, like a simple image of a burning cross, were more direct (Childs 2021)." It appears people don't like how her work always encompasses race in every project she works on.

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Citations Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TsngunX5MS-X6V-r_fFXHtUifECSqNz7q8GiI1FgvAo/edit?usp=sharing

https://eveewing.com/about

https://facingtoday.facinghistory.org/exploring-race-and-education-with-dr.-eve-ewing

https://www.cbr.com/marvel-ironheart-eve-ewing-racism/

https://zora.medium.com/im-a-black-scholar-who-studies-race-here-s-why-i-capitalize-white-f94883aa2dd3

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Include one excerpt of writing/speech/thought that highlights the views of your chosen sociologist.

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Include one excerpt of writing/speech/thought that highlights the views of your chosen sociologist.

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In a writing she says the following. "Ultimately, it’s good that we’re having this public conversation. Plenty of other scholars who study race and racism will disagree with me on this, and that’s fine. In fact, I disagree with myself from two years ago. In my own 2018 book, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, which is about schools and racism in my hometown of Chicago, I capitalized Black, but not White — a fact that an astute undergraduate student of mine noticed last year and asked me about, noting that my class slides now include a capital W. I told her that after thinking about it some more, I changed my mind. I might change my mind again. Language and racial categories have some important things in common: They are fluid, they are inherently political, and they are a socially constructed set of shared norms that are constantly in flux as our beliefs and circumstances change."