Stop Playing in My Face: Contemporary Experiences of a Suburban Black Parent Activist

• In Event: AERA Graduate Student Research-in-Progress Session 3
  In Roundtable Session: Navigating the Intersection of Race and Gender Identity in Education: Student Experience, Teacher Training , and Parent Activism (Table 1)

Abstract

"Abstract
Black parents face an education system that continuously marginalizes their children. Limited research centers the negotiation experiences of suburban Black parent activists and organizers seeking education for their children. Using BlackCrit and Black feminism as a theoretical framework, this paper seeks to answer: How have these suburban Black activist parents navigated the education system and what are their hopes for their children in the context of contemporary education discourse? Four major themes emerged: freedom dreaming, antiblackness, critical consciousness, and intersectionality of race, class, and gender. This paper will be expanded into a comparative analysis for the AERA conference."

Author

• Natosha Folarin Daniels, University of Texas at Austin