XXXXXXXXX An Interdisciplinary Approach for Sustaining a Radical Black Imagination in the AcademyXXXXXXX cancelled per phone call on 2/27 with session organizer Constance Iloh (University of California - Irvine) [email protected]

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

The Black radical imagination, often rooted in times of oppression but cultivated with hope and vision, affords us the ability to imagine the world, our lives, and the social institutions we encounter not as they are but as they might otherwise. Following scholars such as Robin D. G. Kelley (2002) and Marcel Stoetzler and Nira Yuval-Davis (2002), we discuss the ways in which the imagination is a collective process rather than just a product that emerges from individuals and single perspectives working autonomously. This symposium was created with the intent to envision how an interdisciplinary collective might sustain and advance the promise of the Black radical imagination.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry and Transformations

Chair

• Constance Iloh, University of California - Irvine

Papers

• Why the Radical Black Imagination Is Under Attack and Underutilized in the Academy and Lessons That Can Be Learned From Other Industries - Constance Iloh, University of California - Irvine

• Using a Radical Black Imagination in Education Law, Policy, and Reform - Matthew Patrick Shaw, Vanderbilt University

• The Radical Black Imagination, Education, Place, and Space - David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Afro-Futuristic Storytelling and Making Way for New Educational Headlines - Dayna Chatman, University of Oregon; Constance Iloh, University of California - Irvine