Resistance as Responsibility

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium presents case studies exploring individual and collective forms of resistance pushing back against racial domination in educational settings. These papers build upon theorizing around resistance, recognizing how individuals and collectives challenge formal and informal spaces to be more just. Panelists utilized youth participatory action research, autoethnography, and arts-based research to explore resistance. The youth within paper one disrupt schooling, utilizing inquiry as resistance within a YPAR project. The second paper uses critical autoethnography to explore the pedagogies and literacies of healing in the lives of two Black women scholars as they resist and navigate PWIs. The third piece discusses embodied arts and raciocultural trauma as a means of understanding how young people thrive in the midst of suffering.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Chair

• Jamila Lyiscott, University of Massachusetts – Amherst

Papers

• Youth Inquiry as Resistance - Thomas Albright, Georgia State University

• When We See Us: An Endarkened Authethnographic Approach Excavating the Extraordinary Literacies of Black Women - Jamila Lyiscott, University of Massachusetts – Amherst; Amari Boyd, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

• Let Me Talk My Shit - Andrew B. Torres, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Discussant

• Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts - Amherst