Narratives of Resistance: Contesting Happy Valley's Ankylosed Community Ideologies of Place Through Intergenerational Schooling Narratives

• In Event: 45.076 - Intimate Stories of Lived Experience

Abstract

In this paper, we center the intergenerational schooling narratives of Black and Brown people to explore community ideologies of place grounded in White Supremacist Patriarchy. Using Critical Race and Narrative Performative Theories we historicize and contextualize the lived experiences of Black and Brown people in Happy Valley. Our study highlights how schooling narratives resist Happy Valley’s ankylosed corpus that governs school identity and culture. These narratives clarify the functions White Supremacist Patriarchy present in the “Happy Valley” moniker, which is exclusionary to the lived experience of non-white students within its borders. Our narrative work calls on school stakeholders to understand their role in facilitating ankylosis that prevent transformation of community ideologies that would generate pliable and culturally sustained learning spaces.

Authors

• Wideline Seraphin, The Pennsylvania State University

• Ana Carolina Diaz Beltran, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley