Lighting Our Way Home: Recovering Community, Youth, and Educator Stories as Resistance (Table 27)

• In Event: Thursday Roundtable Session 10:50 am

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This symposium is centered on the curricular and methodological possibilities that emerge when youth, community members, and social justice educators collaborate to reclaim their agency and power within educational structures that continue to rely on damage-centered perspectives (Tuck, 2009) of youth of color. Each paper delves into the complex ways community-school-university partnerships, where communal knowledges are sustained, function as sites of reclamation and resistance for youth of color n who refuse to see themselves as broken. Brought together through the UMass Amherst Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research, the panelists explore the overlap in their work of centering communal knowledge through archiving, storytelling, and autoethnographic methods.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 3: Languages, Literacies, and Representations

Chair

• Keisha L. Green, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Papers

• Repatriating the Archive: A Critical Archivist Collaboration With Canal City Youth - Dana Altshuler, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

• Distant Relatives: A Generational Exploration of Black Girls' Experiences in Providence Public Schools - Princess Garrett, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

• Autoethnography of a First-Time Racial Justice Student-Teacher: Challenges and Chances for Youth Leaders - Yingyuan Sun, University of Massachusetts - Amherst