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You Can’t Steal My Joy! Practices and Possibilities for Black Joy in Urban Education

Sat, April 13, 1:15 to 2:45pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 112A

Session Type: Symposium

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The powerful impact of the Black Lives Matter movement, along with changed societal relationships to labor, self, and community brought on by the pandemic, brings us to a hope-filled moment where otherwise worlds are truly possible. To advance this possibility, this symposium will engage ideas of Black futurity that move away from the historical propensity to focus on Black struggle and pain in urban education. Instead, we highlight research that materializes the joyful Black futures we have been dreaming of through narratives focused on the spatial, affective, theoretical, and methodological promises of Black joy in urban education. This symposium will show how Black students, educators, families, communities, and researchers cultivate joy in the urban education context.

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