Co-Constructing Antiracist Educational Futures: Community Knowledges, Black Family Literacies, and Decolonial Possibilities

• In Event: Friday Roundtable Session 9:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Raciolinguistics, Translanguaging, and Indigenous Language Revitalization (Table 38)

Abstract

When aiming for transformational change in education, what theories and practices readily facilitate partnerships with the community as co-researchers when seeking to dismantle racism in schooling? This paper draws on two studies 1) a critical ethnographic case study, with sprachenportrait methods integrated to explore intergenerational language and literacy practices of a Black family and 2) an ethnographic case study examining how grassroots community organizers partner with a school in a Black and Brown community to increase critical consciousness and learning. Data were collected in a large metropolitan city in the Northeastern region of the U.S. Results indicated that Black and Brown youth and families’ linguistic and communal resources are the most viable tools in the quest to dismantle racism.

Authors

• Pamela M. Jones, Bank Street College of Education

• Hui-Ling S. Malone, University of California - Santa Barbara