Reclaiming Narratives of Healing and Love for Black Youth Amid Racial Trauma in K–12 Schools: An Intersectional Lens

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

It is 2024, six decades after the Brown vs. Board of Education, Black youth are in “homeplaces” that exist inside and outside of their K-12 schools, healing and receiving love. Their girl-boy-bodied, immigrant presence and differently-abled selves are affirmed and projected into a future where they build a more just world. Unfortunately, this 2024 cannot exist due to the persistent racial trauma Black youth encounter in K-12 schools. How can we take an intersectional lens to reclaim a narrative of healing and love for Black youth? This symposium will use storytelling and dialogue to build a collective understanding of racial trauma and ways to construct homeplaces for Black youth to heal in affirmation and love inside and outside of schools.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Education

Chair

• Dawn X. Henderson, Village of Wisdom

Papers

• Reclaiming Narratives of Healing and Love for Black Youth Amid Racial Trauma in K–12 Schools: An Intersectional Lens - Dawn X. Henderson, Village of Wisdom; Naila A. Smith, University of Virginia; Brandon Garrett Thornton, Bloomington High School; Charity Brown Griffin, Winston-Salem State University

• School Racial Stress and Trauma Experiences Among Black Youth - Charity Brown Griffin, Winston-Salem State University

• Black Immigrant-Origin Youth and K–12 Educational Contexts - Naila A. Smith, University of Virginia

Discussant

• Edward D. Scott, University of Houston