Toward a Black Satirical Citizenship Discourse: A Brief History and Lesson Recommendation

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session Four
  In Roundtable Session: Racecraft and Racial Realism in Social Studies Education (Table 8)

Abstract

Scholars have recently called for citizenship education to consider the nuances of American citizenship and how it is conceptualized. For some, American citizenship considers how personhood was denied and continues to be denied because of race. Busey’s and Walker’s Black critical patriotism Framework centralizes personhood and resistance to sub-personhood. In this article, we seek to add a fourth tenant to this existing framework by including a new form of resistance we call Black satirical citizenship discourse. We begin by providing a brief history on how Black satirical traditions emerged and evolved to modern day traditions. We conclude by providing a lesson recommendation regarding how to teach this form of resistance to students

Authors

• Terrance Joshua Lewis, Auburn University
  Presenting Author

• Daniel Josiah Thomas, Texas A&M University
  Presenting Author