Living Legacy, Struggle, and Commitments in Public Education: Doing the Work of Critical Women-of-Color Feminisms

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session highlights critical women of color (WOC) feminisms as lived praxis. Specifically, what truths about public education do WOC feminisms lay bare? What theories, epistemologies and methodologies can critical WOC feminists marshal in contemporary issues of equity in research? What are the affordances and tensions in thinking with various critical WOC feminist frameworks to address and advance what we can know about public education? In what ways do various critical feminisms, based in multiple and intersecting identities, take up inequalities of public education in necessarily nuanced and dynamic ways? This intergenerational conversation of WOC feminisms by senior, junior and mid-career scholars serves as a catalyst for creating more just commitments in our study of and engagements with public education.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Bettina L. Love, University of Georgia

Participants

• Subini Ancy Annamma, The University of Kansas

• Cynthia B. Dillard, University of Georgia

• Sandy Grande, Connecticut College

• Aida Hurtado, University of California - Santa Barbara

• Joyce E. King, Georgia State University

• Carmen L. Medina, Indiana University - Bloomington

• Esther Oganda Ohito, Mills College

• Venus E. Evans-Winters, Illinois State University