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25.035 - Underground, Outer Space, and on the Move: Fugitive Possibilities in Black Education

Sat, April 6, 8:00 to 9:30am, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Floor: 200 Level, Room 205D

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The panelists in this symposium consider “black fugitivity” as practice and interpretive resource. This language builds from historical precedent of fugitive slaves and their various modes of escape. It also extends from theoretical contributions of Black Studies scholars who forward fugitivity as an analytic for thinking about black psychic and social life. Using a variety of different methodologies and cases (contemporary, historical, ethnographic, theoretical, etc.), the papers comprising this panel all engage the following question: if antiblackness is foundational to the ideology and structure of the American school, what are the possible means of escape for black children to learn, but to do so without consenting to their own subjection?

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