31.041 - Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Intergenerational Sustenance and Solidarities From Turtle Island to //Hui !Gaeb

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this session, we present engagements with culturally sustaining pedagogies (Paris 2012; Paris & Alim, 2017) rooted in intergenerational sustenance and solidarities from Turtle Island to //Hui !Gaeb (“the place where the clouds gather,” currently most commonly referred to as Cape Town, South Africa). Our session examines four separate, but interconnected enactments of culturally sustaining pedagogies (CSP) across Native and Black communities. Given the ways nation-state education is structured by the ongoing settler colonial legacies of land theft, genocide, and enslavement, our collective work on CSP seeks to create strategic alliances and coalitions between Black education and Indigenous education that sustains our youth and communities.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 2: Differences and Intersectionalities

Chair

• Django Paris, University of Washington

Papers

• Grandmothers' Pedagogy: Lessons for Supporting Native Students' Attending Universities - Amanda R. Tachine, Arizona State University

• Emergent Lessons of Indigeneity: Stories of Intergenerational Learning Between Native American Mothers and Their Children - Timothy J. San Pedro, The Ohio State University

• AFRIKAAPS: Language, Land, and Hip-Hop as Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in //Hui !Gaeb - H. Samy Alim, University of California - Los Angeles; Adam Haupt, University of Cape Town; Emile YX? Jansen

• Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies in the Project of Black and Indigenous Coalitions and on Turtle Island - Django Paris, University of Washington

Discussant

• Adrienne Keene, Brown University