34.022 - Truth and Trauma: What Educators Need to Understand About Societal Racial Trauma and Its Impact on Youth of Color

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This panel style session engages social inequalities that cause harm to minoritized and marginalized youth/students, and that even in illuminating the “truth” about these inequalities, trauma can be perpetrated (e.g., increased video coverage of anti-Black police targeting, attention to online discrimination, language and framing around “the achievement gap”). Consequently, this can reinforce a deficiency view of youth of color (and the communities they come from), among other negative impacts and implications. There has been less attention to the impacts of such racial trauma for students and the roles of scholars, schools, and educational systems in addressing them.

Participating panelists’ will share and discuss research foci including: urban education and the myths of equity-oriented "reform" for children of color; the reproduction of raciolinguistic ideologies that have framed the language practices of racialized communities as inherently deficient and in need of remediation; how online violence and discrimination (including through online tools and resources used in education settings) impact youth of color; and how Black parents socialize and prepare their children for schooling based on their awareness and view of the concept of the "achievement gap."

Sub Unit

• Social Justice Action Committee

Chair

• Danny B. Martin, University of Illinois at Chicago

Panelists

• Stephanie J. Rowley, University of Michigan

• Brendesha M. Tynes, University of Southern California

• Nelson Flores, University of Pennsylvania

• Marcus Croom, Brio Education Consulting