Black and Brown Education in America: Integration in Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities

• In Event: Sunday Roundtable Session 1:15 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Reimagining Community and School Partnership (Table 20)

Abstract

Our research study is a decade long ethnographic study of Maywood, Illinois, and the impact of its recent demographic shift from a historically Black middle-class suburb outside of Chicago with roots in the Black Panther Party to now a community with an increasing Latinx population. It explores the intersection of race, culture, and language and the ensuing Black-Brown identity politics as well as the role of community organizations such as interracial faith-based churches and embattled school boards. Against a backdrop of racial tensions and heightened violence, the study also addresses transformative liminal spaces where coalition building, and collaboration bring the Black and Latinx communities together around common causes and unified goals.

Author

• Samina Hadi-Tabassum, Elmhurst University