For Us, By Us: Black Education, Self-Determination, and Freedom

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Throughout history and into the contemporary moment, Black children, youth, and families have faced antiblackness in schools and education spaces (Dumas & ross, 2016). This symposium is composed of empirical and conceptual papers that explore the various ways in which Black communities have organized to construct more just educational possibilities for Black children and youth across time. Each paper seeks to shift the deficit narrative about Black students, families, and communities’ commitment to education by highlighting how they have advocated, rejected educational oppression, and continued to strive for equitable and liberatory educational conditions in the U.S.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Sociology of Education

Chair

• Tiffany Harris, College of Charleston

Papers

• Dynamic Assertions of Agency: Black Students Resisting Anti-Blackness in 1970s Texas - ArCasia D. James-Gallaway, Texas A&M University

• Within and Beyond Public Education: Black Communities’ Historical and Contemporary Struggles in Pursuit of Educational Justice - Samiha Rahman, California State University - Long Beach; Wintre Foxworth Johnson, University of Virginia

• Black Homeschooling: Reclaiming Education for Black Families - Rachel A. Johnson, School Mental Health Collaborative

Discussant

• Camika Royal, Morgan State University