54.059 - Moving From Knowledge to Action Through Humanizing Literacy Curricula

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The spirit murdering (Love, 2016) of Black youth has long been a burden that Black youth shoulder within schools. Building upon Baszile’s notion of the racial self as a curricular construction, this symposium unites three scholars who demonstrate how Black youth move from knowledge to action through humanizing curricula. These three research-informed vantage points jointly investigate the intersectional identities of Black youth through close examinations of: writing curriculum in an academic enrichment program, curricular spaces of resistance, and critical race English education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice

Chair

• Sakeena Everett, University of Illinois at Chicago

Papers

• Utilizing Metaphor to Cultivate Consequential Writing Curriculum for Black Male Secondary Students - Sakeena Everett, University of Illinois at Chicago

• We're More Than What "They" Say We Are: Identity-Making in the Figured World of the Culturally Relevant Classroom - Keisha McIntosh Allen, University of Maryland - Baltimore County

• Affirming the Humanity of Black Youth Through Black Literacies - Lamar L. Johnson, Michigan State University

Discussant

• Justin Avery Coles, Michigan State University