Unlearning and Relearning Our Truths: Racial Solidarity Across Black and Asian Communities in K–20 Education

• In Event: Invited Symposium. Centering Critical Ethnic Studies in K–20 Education Today: Building Racial Solidarity Across K–12 Schools and Higher Education

Abstract

This session unites two faculty members, and doctoral students and practice focuses on utilizing ethnic studies and counter storytelling as a transformative framework to reframe K-20 curriculum and pedagogy in centering and exploring the truths within historic racial solidarity between Black and Asian communities. We argue that it is urgent for our increasingly multicultural society and school system to implement an ethnic studies curriculum and pedagogy that is critical, diverse, humanizing, and community-responsive in challenging the power structures of the status quo. We use the tenets and framework of ethnic studies scholarship and counter storytelling to build on the collective history and stories of solidarity between Black and Asian Americans that have been erased in scholarship and public knowledge.
It is imperative that through work in educational research and curriculum development, educators engage with their students an exploration to uncover hidden and rather unknown histories to build a larger picture of what constitutes truth.

Authors

• Judy W. Yu, Queens College - CUNY
  Presenting Author

• Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University
  Presenting Author