Grown Folks’ Talk: Black Men and Women on Education, Incarceration, and Testing

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium turns a micro-level analytical lens on Black educational experiences. Specifically, these presentations address different aspects of schooling experiences related to high-stakes teacher licensure exams, social promotion, and the emergence of the school-to-prison pipeline. Each of these presentations centers the experiences of Black men and women, in some cases as middle-aged people reflecting back upon their schooling experiences. In doing so, we challenge the tendency for educational and social science research to pathologize Black experiences and simultaneously construct them through a deficit lens.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Research Focus on Black Education

Chair

• Bianca J. Baldridge, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Papers

• Passing as White: Race, Shame, and Success in Teacher Licensure Testing Events for Black Preservice Teachers - Emery Marc Petchauer, Oakland University

• Passed Along: Black Women Reflect on the Long-Term Effects of Social Promotion and Retention in Schools - Lynnette K. Mawhinney, The College of New Jersey

• On Tha Outside Looking In: Formerly Incarcerated Black Male School-Leavers and the School-to-Prison Pipeline - Decoteau J. Irby, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Discussant

• James Earl Davis, Temple University