Excavating Black Teacher Historiographies and the Necessity of Archival Justice Work in Advancing Educational Equity

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium examines the culturally responsive archival practices of three emerging historians of Black education who participated in the inaugural Black Teacher Archive (BTA) Pilot Summer Research Institute. Through the historical analysis of periodicals produced by Colored Teachers Associations across Southern states during the early 20th century, the panelists will discuss these publications as an artifact, a body of literature, and a collection of data, as well as the variety of ways to approach the Black Teacher Archive to interrogate the history of Black education. Within this series of presentations, the emerging scholars will pose epistemological, ontological, and historiographical inquiries while offering insight about how archival research in education may forge new meanings for contemporary struggles for educational freedom.

Sub Unit

• Division F - History and Historiography

Chair

• Jaminque L. Adams, University of Georgia

Papers

• A Historical Perspective of the Super-Exploitation of Black Women Teachers' Labor - Jaminque L. Adams, University of Georgia

• Documenting a History of Black Teachers-as-Researchers - Abdul-Qadir D. Islam, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Mapping the Black High School Through Jim Crow and Desegregation - Cassondra Hanna, Harvard University