Reexamining Race-Related Stress, Trauma, and Violence: Ecological, Holistic, and Pedagogical Responses

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

While educators must always recognize the talent, brilliance, and vigor of young people persisting through everyday life in our country's most vulnerable urban neighborhoods, studies show many youth experience trauma. Educators must understand how students’ health and achievement is shaped by experiences of structural violence across ghetto schooling and community. This panel draws from transdisciplinary research on wellness and 'dis-ease' in urban communities to reexamine developmental demands of urban ecologies on youth. Thus, our driving research question: How can the science of student wellness help educational researchers and practitioners address the needs of students of color more effectively, including providing pedagogical frameworks to facilitates better understanding of toxicity experienced by urban youth, and inversely, one that cultivates healing, hope, and resilience?

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 1: Education and Place, Space, Time

Chair

• Daniel Gilbert Solorzano, University of California - Los Angeles

Papers

• A Geography of Race and Violence: Reexamining Urban Violence and Black Youths' Spatial and Racial Sense-Making - David Philoxene, University of California - Berkeley

• Revealing Cuts Beneath the Skin: Black Collegiate Men and the Biopsychosocial Impact of Racial Microaggressions - Kenjus Terrel Watson, San Francisco State University

• On the Fascination With Flowers: An Eco-Social Examination of Chronic Stress and Youth Well-Being - Tiffani Johnson

• From Coping to Hoping: Teaching Students to Thrive Through Trauma - Patrick Camangian, University of San Francisco

Discussant

• David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago