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31.073 - Recentering Evidence: Examining Black Educational Narratives to Challenge the Idea of a Post-Truth Era

Sat, April 6, 12:20 to 1:50pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Floor: 700 Level, Room 714A

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The purpose of the panel is illuminate the various ways Black education in the United States has always been a liberatory exercise in the face of legislated, economic, and social alternate facts. We assert that a tendency to define the current political climate as an era of so-called post-truth is by its very nature evidence of the ways in which the white experience is, and continues to be, centralized in discourse about US education and history. The papers included draw on several contemporary and historic data sources and theoretical frameworks to re-center efforts of resistance evidenced in Black educational historical and contemporary periods. Collectively, these papers explore the Post-Truth Continuum and the resilient ways black people have responded.

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