41.061 - "There Can Never Really Be Justice on Stolen Land": A Discussion for Emerging Scholars

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Interrupting claims that we live in a post-racial and colorblind society (Bonilla-Silva, 2003), this symposium steers the scholarly conversation towards colonialism as an evolving structure (Wolfe, 2006) that involves racial stratification. This discussion engages interdisciplinary discourses regarding colonialism: a structure in which genocide, displacement and subjugated synthetic cultural creation mingle together to create complicated forms of oppression. The scholars in this symposium make visible the events of 1492 resulting in evolved forms of oppression experienced by racialized and minoritized groups. Co-theorizing about liberation, each paper focuses on (1) deconstructing and understanding how colonial structures and institutions have evolved since European Imperialism in 1492 and/or (2) How students and educational activists navigate these evolved colonial structures and institutions today.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Chairs

• Michael J. Dumas, University of California - Berkeley

• Eve Tuck, University of Toronto

Papers

• When History Repeats Itself: KIPP and Postcolonial Theory as an Analytical Tool - Jacquie Forbes, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Postcolonial Theory and Alternative Financial Understandings for Low-Income Latinx College Students - Kathy Villalon, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Lessons From Idle No More, No One Is Illegal, and Black Lives Matter - Talia London, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Blended Analysis: Akili Academy, Sylvia Wynter, and Critical Race Theory - Sarah Ishmael, The University of Texas - Austin

• Postcolonial Theory and the Schooling Experiences of Black Postcolonial Subjects in U.S. Schools - Mercy Agyepong, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Dyett High School and Decoloniality: The Chicago Context - Prudence Browne, University of Illinois at Chicago