Women of Color Reclaiming Voice: Engaging Transformative Methodologies to Honor Women of Color Experiences

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Narratives about Women of Color (WOC) scholar-activists have been historically silenced and misinterpreted. As a response to systemic exclusion, this panel challenges traditional notions of objectivity, historical analysis, and data collection. Collectively, symposium papers use critical theories to document WOC experiential truths. Individually, papers: (1) examine the history of librarian activism in Chicanx children’s literature movements; (2) introduce and uplift a Critical Race Feminista Epistolary Methodology; (3) reconceptualize practices of silence through testimonio methodologies and; (4) detail the affordance of collaborative filmmaking in critical race counter storytelling. Ultimately, this panel details how WOC Feminism and Critical Race frameworks can be harnessed in challenging historically silenced narratives in education research, by engaging in methods of research that emphasize accountability and reciprocity.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Bianca N. Haro, California State Polytechnic University - Pomona

Papers

• Archiving the Activism of Chicanx Librarians Through a Critical Race Educational History Methodology - Lorena Camargo Gonzalez, California State University - Sacramento

• Writing to Resist, Remember, and Reclaim: Employing a Critical Race Feminista Epistolary Methodology - Cindy R. Escobedo, University of California - Los Angeles; Yadira Valencia, University of California - Los Angeles

• Voicing the Silences: Testimonios of Women of Color Navigating Higher Education - Magali Campos, University of California - Los Angeles

• Women of Color Film School: Cinematic Critical Race Composite Counterstories From the Classroom to the Screen - Brenda Y. Lopez, University of California - Los Angeles