AERA Annual Meeting: Resisting the Web of Carcerality: Counternarratives of Youth Impacted by Foster Care, Homelessness, and the Criminal Justice System (Table 10)

Resisting the Web of Carcerality: Counternarratives of Youth Impacted by Foster Care, Homelessness, and the Criminal Justice System (Table 10)

In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session Thirteen

Sat, April 15, 2:50 to 4:20pm CDT (2:50 to 4:20pm CDT), Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 4, Sheraton Ballroom IV and V

Session Type: Roundtable Session

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In this session, authors subvert dominant narratives that label youth negatively impacted by the child welfare system, housing and homeless services, the criminal justice system, and public educational system as problems by offering the counter narratives of youth who navigated these institutions. Utilizing anti-deficit and critical frameworks, each paper presentation will interrogate how foster care, schooling, and other systems further marginalize young people of color. For example, they must navigate anti-blackness and the experience of being foster and/or homeless. Lastly, this session will center youth perspectives, the innovative ways they navigated carceral-like public institutions in pursuit of a quality education and the allies (e.g. peers and mentors) that supported them along the way.

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Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 7: Social Context and Structural Inequalities

Resisting the Web of Carcerality: Counternarratives of Youth Impacted by Foster Care, Homelessness, and the Criminal Justice System (Table 10)

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