Toward a Black Education Clearing: On Anti-Blackness in Education and the Political Act of Black Dreaming

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

In this session we will engage an intergenerational group of scholars in a panel discussiontowards two ends: 1. We will explore a key analytic in Black Education Studies: antiblackness. We will ask participants to explore the recent history of deploying antiblackness as an analytic in education research; in particular, we will discuss when and how the term entered the field of education and the myriad ways scholars have employed antiblackness as a framework for analysis. 2. We will seek to understand what it means to really grapple with antiblackness in education and what it means for scholars in their own lived realities...Thus beyond an explanation of the ways antiblackness manifests in education, we will also engage scholars in a reflective exercise to consider what antiblackness means and has meant in their own educational trajectories. 3. We will engage participants in a question that leads into the next part of the session (see below for session format): What does the world “as it should be” look like? What did it look like to dream in the past? What does it look like to dream in our present? In the realm of Black educational futurities?

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• kihana miraya ross, Northwestern University

Participants

• Robin Rue Simmons, FirstRepair

• Joyce E. King, Georgia State University

• James D. Anderson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Micia Mosely, Black Teacher Project

• Zenzile Saharee Riddick, Northwestern University

Discussant

• Justin A. Coles, University of Massachusetts - Amherst