Black Lives Matter in U.S. Schools: Race, Education, and Resistance

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Aligning with a long history of education scholars who have insisted on the enmeshed nature of schools and society, this session addresses how various forms of curricula perpetuate anti-Blackness while simultaneously shaping Black ways of being, knowing, and doing. While the papers in this session tend toward issues of normalized violence, the authors are equally concerned with possibilities for justice stemming from curricular change and effects like hope and love that are central to radical acts of resistance to oppression. Paper themes range from eugenics to its relation to curriculum theory and schools, from Afro-surrealism to historiography while tacking between traditional forms of qualitative and quantitative research and personal narratives.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies

Chair

• Erica Warren

Papers

• Getting Schooled: A Curriculum of Lying, Choking, and Dying - Walter S. Gershon, Rowan University

• Democracy in the Break: A Riff in Support of the Movement for Black Lives - Denise M. Taliaferro Baszile, Wayne State University

• Letter to Pauli - Reagan P. Mitchell, University of North Carolina School of the Arts

• From Cooper and Woodson to Schools Today: Black Lives Matter and American Schools - Boni Wozolek, Pennsylvania State University - Abington

Discussant

• Erica Warren