Educational Navigation of First-Generation Black Male Immigrant Student With Dis/ability

• In Event: Investigating Intersectional Oppressions and Pathways of Resistance

Abstract

The growing immigrant student population in the U.S. schools is subjected to racist nativism , white supremacy, and cultural hegemony within educational spaces and the larger U.S. and global society. The purpose of this research paper is to offer the narrative account of one recently migrated Black male African student’s meaning making of his ESL and Special Education experiences, and his intersectional experiences in inclusive education systems.

Authors

• Shehreen Iqtadar, Rowan University
  Presenting Author

• Scott Ellison, University of Northern Iowa
  Non-Presenting Author