Black Chaos, White Trash: Order and Disorder at the Intersections of Mathematics and Culture. Occasional Paper No. 7

Mathematical practices and knowledge are often in dispute for those race and class identities at the margins of social power. This talk will describe both the ways in which mathematics can be complicit with social domination, and the ways in which it can aid in resistance and reconfiguration. It will end with a presentation of Culturally Situated Design Tools, software based on the ethnomathematics of cultural artifacts from Native American, African American, Latino, and Youth Subculture communities.