Rising Up With Black Youth as Researchers: Leveraging Multiliteracies and Community Resilience Through Youth Participatory Action Research

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Abstract

Community resilience among Black youth promotes positive effects and outcomes resulting in an increase in self-esteem, sense of belonging, understanding, and support. Utilizing Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR), this paper highlights the development of a YPAR curriculum, curated with and for Black youth that captured embodied multiliteracies as components in their community resilience. Embedded in the context of a CDF Freedom School, this work also aims to contribute to scholarship that highlights the collective theoretical and methodological strategies in community-engaged participatory action research and praxis that centers youth as agents of change in their communities and beyond.

Authors

• Taryrn T.C. Brown, University of Florida

• Dahlia Fabregat, University of Florida

• Natalya Green, University of Florida