Forging Racial Solidarities in Education Through Juxtaposing Racial Experiences

• In Event: Mapping Marginalization and Forging Racial Solidarities Using Decolonizing Methodologies

Abstract

This study explores our experiences using cellphilm as an arts-based approach to understand the commonalities and tensions between our experiences as a Black, cisgender, immigrant woman and a queer, white, agender New Brunswicker serving as part of the Black Lives Matter in New Brunswick Education Project. We analyzed the ways our narratives juxtaposed and were similar. We concluded that our interactions with persons of minority races juxtaposed while we found commonalities in our desire to dismantle systems of oppression and our experiences of having our identities erased from the province’s education systems. This study can aid in deconstructing anti-racist policies and actions in unique, non-traditional ways as we incorporate contemporary arts-based visual methodologies in analysing crucial issues surrounding racism.

Authors

• Alicia Francisca Noreiga, Acadia University
  Presenting Author

• Sara Marie Nason, University of New Brunswick
  Presenting Author