72.010 - Conceptualizing Justice: The Peoples of the Diaspora Speak Out on Inequities in the Research of and on Their Cultures, Languages, and Heritage

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

The session represents a collective move to interrogate approaches to researching and teaching peoples of the Diaspora that traditionally negate their identities and silence their voices. We ask: Who am I? Why do you think you have the right to research and write about me in your terms? We explore: What are the ways in which peoples of the Black Diaspora have been researched? How have these peoples fought back, written back, and responded to the ways in which they have been made the subject and object of research?
We move: Towards epistemological and methodological frames that validate our cultures, languages, and heritage in education, research, and praxis: The peoples of the Diaspora speak up and out.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Janice B. Fournillier, Georgia State University

Papers

• The African/Black Researcher For Anti-Colonial Times - Frank C. Worrell, University of California - Berkeley

• On Researching and Theorizing About Ourselves-The Case of Gender and Achievement in the Caribbean - Jerome De Lisle, University of the West Indies

• Researching the Afroperipheral: Towards a Richer Understanding of Diaspora - Annette M. Henry, The University of British Columbia

• Biting the Hand that Feeds Us: The Influence of International Funding Agencies on Education Agendas in Caribbean Nations - Jennifer E. Obidah, University of the West Indies

• Understanding What is Meant by “Post/Colonial Education” in Jamaica: The Social History to its Current State - Saran Stewart, The University of the West Indies - Mona Campus

Discussant

• Rodney K. Hopson, George Mason University