67.067-13 - "Because They Said So...": Challenging Singular Narratives by Centering Truths From Black Youth in Context

• In Event: 67.067 - MTCC Roundtable Session 31

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This session explores what can be learned from Black youth voices when we use them to interrogate assumptions about who they are and how they experience their academic and social worlds. By privileging participants’ meaning-making and honoring their capacity to assess educational conditions and craft powerful representations of their own histories, convictions, and imaginings, the presenters herein tackle cross-cutting issues of equity across space and time. Using multimodal, qualitative methods, panelists engage perspectives of Black youth not solely as a means of affirmation but also to evidence their potential to inform locally-meaningful change. Each presentation is structured as a comparative analysis of an empirical case, placing in stark relief dominant and/or adult-driven narratives with impassioned accounts from young participants.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Research Focus on Black Education

Chair

• Carla D. O'Connor, University of Michigan

Papers

• Seen, Not Heard: A Meta-Ethnography of Scholar and Youth Perspectives on Childhood in Jim Crow - Kimberly Charis Ransom, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

• Breathing Life Into Pedagogical Ambitions: Privileging Black Children's Conceptions of Self-Determination in an Afrocentric School - Natalie R. Davis, Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy Learning Sciences

• "I'm the One Who Loses": Narratives From Black Girls on School Discipline - Alaina Neal-Jackson, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

• "Still Misunderstood and Ain't Spoke One Sentence": Listening to Black Students' Artistic and Cultural Expressions - Alistair Bomphray, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor