Healing Through a Racial Lens: Disrupting Antiblackness at School

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Eight
  In Roundtable Session: Antiracist Educational Research for Social Transformation (Table 1)

Abstract

The objective of this paper session is to share the findings that were discovered in a yearlong study at one urban high school and its attempts to support Black students by disrupting anti-Blackness in school policies and practices. This session examines:

1. How anti-Blackness impacts Black youth health
2. Assesses the extent to which anti-Blackness and race-based events impact Black students
3. Identifies possibilities for schools to provide radical care for Black students

Authors

• Tyrone C. Howard, University of California - Los Angeles
  Presenting Author

• Gene F McAdoo, University of California - Los Angeles
  Presenting Author

• Keara L. Williams, University of California - Los Angeles
  Presenting Author