Beloved Community, Afro-Portuguese Music Metaphor, Academic Memoir, and the Design of New Community Spaces for Understanding Teaching Antiracism and Academic Press

• In Event: Developing and Sustaining Anti-Oppressive, Antiracist, and Anti-Ableist Teachers

Abstract

This paper explores academic memoir, academic press (Cannata, Smith, Haynes, 2017), and the use of saudade as an analytic metaphor for the mixed feelings of longingness and regret, beauty and blight, and mysticism and reality in an educational community of practice. This feeling is used as an interpretive space to analyze, dramatize and reimagine the ethnographic study of community-based literacy practices of one, ethnically-diverse group of Charleston, SC teachers and their African-American professor as they seek to explore the African Diaspora, the Middle Passage, Gullah/Geechee culture, literacy and the design of new community spaces for teaching and learning K- 12 students.

Author

• Nicola Williams, The City University of New York