“Between Shadow and Substance”: Examining What It Means to Move Toward Collective Freedom Through Methodologies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

As a result of his teaching and field-defining book (The Crisis of the N*gro Intellectual), Harold Cruse (1967) went on to become one of the few scholars ever appointed with tenure without a college degree as Professor at the University of Michigan. As a part of his refusal to be admitted into intellectualism on the terms of the academic industrial complex, we think about one of Cruse’s lifelong arguments. He sought to critique academics for trafficking in “shadow,” and dismissing the larger multifaceted and community-rooted “substance” of intellectual traditions outside of the too often singular perspective of European-descended academia. In conversation with Cruse, this symposium gathers five scholars aiming to teach and develop methodologies to “substantively” advance collective freedom.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Casey Philip Wong, Georgia State University

Papers

• Shouting at the Wall: Learning From Hip-Hop to Synchronously Sustain Abolitionist and Decolonial Methodologies - Casey Philip Wong, Georgia State University

• The Heart of the Matter: Collective Healing and Freedom Through Intersectional Sisterhood Research Spaces - Shena Sanchez, University of Alabama

• Catalytic Slippages: Removing the Borders From Intersectionality in Qualitative Methodology - Tanja Burkhard, Georgia State University

• And Still We Hold Our Tongues: The Ironies of Knowledge Production in a World Committed to Lies - Miguel Casar, University of Alabama

Discussant

• Jennifer R. Esposito, Georgia State University