Catalyst for Hope: Imagining a World With Color

Session Type: Pre-Conference Mentoring Session

Abstract

This session invites participants to reflect upon the role of critical scholarship in the abolition of oppressive systems, and in the creation of more just educational futures. It engages in discussions of the sociohistorical and political roots of racial injustice in schools with hope and loving-anger, while providing graduate student attendees with space to reflect on their own positioning in academic spaces and the unique tools they possess to disrupt the oppressive status quo.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education

Chairs

• Luimil Negrón, University of Missouri - St. Louis

• Ronald Cunningham, Indiana University - Indianapolis

• Jenna Gabriel, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Adriana Ybarra, University of Missouri

• Marie Wagner, University of Kansas

• Kenesma John, University of Florida

• Amira Nash, University of Iowa

• CJ Greer, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Speaker

• Cleveland Hayes, Indiana University - Indianapolis