Stories of Race, Place, and Public Education: A Critical Curriculum Studies Performance

• In Event: Millennium Hotel Roundtable Session 3
  In Roundtable Session: Critical Examinations of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture Across Curricula

Abstract

This readers theater performance/alternative presentation paper explores the curricular contours of race and place as articulated through the oral histories of inhabitants of the Central Savannah River Area who have made educational contributions in this region of the American South, particularly as pertaining to their experiences of segregation, de-segregation and their aftermath and enduring influence in public education, and beyond. In presenting a mosaic of important grassroots, unheard, undocumented stories from people—particularly from historically marginalized groups who lived through events such as the civil rights movement, we seek to illumine such from the lives of those experiencing them, as well as something of the educational necessities, deferred and hoped-for dreams, and curricular possibilities their stories express.

Authors

• Molly Quinn, Augusta University

• Darla Linville, Augusta University

• Nicoletta Christodoulou, Augusta University