Centering Black Children in Education: Revolutionizing K–12 and Higher Institutions and Research Toward Our Collective Liberation

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Anti-Black racism must be examined if we seek to remedy normed harms Black children navigate across P-20 schooling spaces. Pathways to collective advancement requires educational systems designed to cultivate creativity, prioritize critical analyses of interlocking institutional racism and suppression, excavate stories of trials and triumph, and develop strategic collaborations
necessary for Black students’ liberation. If those of us who recognize our consolidated freedom is bound with the freedom of Black people were to undertake rigorous research
without considering mediocrity’s gaze, absent constrictions devoted to maintenance of averageness and perpetuations of oppression, what could we conjure for Black
children? What would educational spaces determined to wholly nourish Black children’s multifaceted gifts look like?

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Rema E. Reynolds Vassar, Wayne State University

Participants

• Erica B. Edwards, Wayne State University

• Shaun R. Harper, University of Southern California

• Tyrone C. Howard, University of California - Los Angeles

• Bettina L. Love, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Rich Milner, Vanderbilt University

• Emmanuel Pittman, Detroit School of the Arts, Detroit Public School Community District

• Mayowa Lisa Reynolds, Detroit School of the Arts

• Jordan Roebuck, Michigan State University

• Ivory A. Toldson, Howard University

• Miselo Chola, Michigan State University

Discussant

• Clyde Barnett, Discover Without Barriers LLC