RUME 27
2025
Alexandria, Virginia
Meta-Analysis of How Race is Discussed in RUME Proceedings From 2019 – 2024
Page: 697
In the last 20 years, mathematics education research has taken a more critical lens (Gutiérrez, 2013), in which researchers focus on salient features of students’ identities (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender) to analyze the structures within mathematics and schools to motivate change to power structures and systems that oppress such groups. In recent years, there has been a notable change in the types of submissions to the RUME community. This paper details a meta-analysis of the RUME proceedings from 2019 to 2024. Using 60 keywords related to racial identity, we sorted papers based on how they discussed race and its centrality in their work. A total of 33 papers were identified as directly engaging work that focuses on race. We draw conclusions of what may be missing in current research, and the ways we may more meaningfully engage in race-conscious research in mathematics education.