A Space of Our Own: Transforming Education, Innovating Pedagogy, and Upgrading Literacy With Black and Brown Girls in Mind

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The proposed symposium engages the audience in dialogue about the schooling experiences of African American and Latina girls and young women. Drawing on scholarship in women and gender studies, sociology, and education (Collins, 2000; hooks, 1990; Ladner, 1971), along with the authors on-going research and pedagogical experiences with younger women who identify as African American and Latina, the authors present innovative approaches to pedagogy, literacy, and research methodology. Given the present reality of national school closings, policing of youth bodies inside and outside of schools, and shifts toward school privatization, creating spaces where marginalized youth, like non-White, lower-income and working class female students are free to learn are paramount to youth positive development and societal transformation.

Sub Unit

• Committee on Scholars and Advocates for Gender Equity in Education

Chair

• Venus E. Evans-Winters, Illinois State University

Papers

• My Sisters’ Keeper: Blurring the Boundaries Between Teaching, Research, and Sisterhood - Venus E. Evans-Winters, Illinois State University

• Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy With Black and Latina Girls - Bettina L. Love, University of Georgia

• Zebra Katz’s “Imma Read”: The Aesthetic and Affective Power of a Black Girlhood and Hip-Hop Feminist Pedagogy - Ruth Nicole Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Holla If Ya Hear Me Though: Cultivating Classroom Space(s) for Hip-Hop Feminism and Women Students of Color - Stephanie Troutman, Appalachian State University

• Black Feminist Ethnography as a Transformative Site for Innovative Research Methodology - Angela N. Campbell, Cabrini College

Discussant

• Maisha T. Winn, University of Wisconsin - Madison