Centering Epistemologies of Family: Relationality, Mutuality, and Care

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium combines three scholar-siblings of color building knowledge alongside BIPOC youth and families about how they engage relational, community, and cultural literacies towards freedom. Panelists do this work understanding that familial ways of knowing and being are resources that contribute to the survival and thriving of BIPOC communities in the face of white supremacist structures. Attending to the ways in which knowledge is shaped at the intersections of race and gender, presenters explore resistant knowledges cultivated in the home and in communities amongst family members engaging care-based pedagogies. Panelists contend that there are sophisticated knowledges, ways of knowing, and ways of being rooted in the experience of marginalized families caring for one another and fighting for each other’s rights.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 4: Policies, Mattering, and Praxis

Chair

• Timothy J. San Pedro, The Ohio State University

Papers

• Sistering as Understanding: Girl of Color Relational Work as Methodology - Grace D. Player, University of Connecticut

• Relational Accountability in Research: Protecting Promises - Timothy J. San Pedro, The Ohio State University

• Umoja: Embodying Community Pedagogies as Methodological - Hui-Ling S. Malone, University of California - Santa Barbara

• Storytelling With Girls and Their Mothers: Illuminating Black and Brown Brilliance Together - Tracey Terece Flores, University of Texas at Austin

Discussant

• Valerie Kinloch, Johnson C. Smith University