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Black epiSTEMologies: A Multidimensional-Multiplicative Approach to Examining Blackness in STEM
Thu, April 11, 9:00 to 10:30am, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 112ASession Type: Symposium
Abstract
Postsecondary STEM education research, policies, and practices that engages and supports Black students often fails to meaningfully account for the various Black onto-epistemologies that exist. Black, as a racial identity, is often treated as a homogenous grouping where in research, policy, and practice, it is assumed that all Black people are the same, behave in the same manner, maintain the same aspirations, and require the same support mechanisms. A homogenous interpretation and application of Black and Blackness, thereby reifies oppression that equates Black people to being anti-human. This symposium offers a set of presentations that correspond with a national research project that strives to disrupt anti-Blackness in STEM education by theorizing and investigating Blackness in STEM through a multidimensional-multiplicative approach.
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Fostering a Racially-Just Collaborative Endeavor: Building Black epiSTEMologies - Terrell R Morton, University of Illinois at Chicago; Paula Groves Price, North Carolina A&T State University
All Skin Folk: Mosaic Ethnography and Anti-Essentialism in Black STEM Research - Ashley N. Woodson, Black epiSTEMologies; Terrell R Morton, University of Illinois at Chicago
Theorizing Blackness in STEM From a Multidimensional Perspective: Centering Black Knowledge in STEM Education - Tia C. Madkins, The University of Texas at Austin; Yasmiyn Irizarry, University of Texas at Austin; Chandel Burgess, University of Texas at Austin
Toward a Conceptualization of Mentoring for Black People in STEM: A Multigenerational-Multidirectional Approach - Nickolaus A. Ortiz, Georgia State University; Shari E. Watkins, American University; Andrea L. Tyler, Tennessee State University; Brian McGowan, American University