Intersectionality and Hegemony: African American Educational Leaders and the Power of Their Stories

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Sunday 11:40 am Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3
  In Roundtable Session: Leadership at the Crossroads: Navigating Race, Racism, Power, and Community-Driven Leadership (Table 8)

Abstract

In this narrative study, we apply intersectionality as an analytic tool to understand the experiences of African American educational leaders as they attempt to lead their schools and support their students amidst a plethora of populist, embedded racism reinforced by many state legislatures. We apply Clandinin and Connelly’s model of three-dimensional narrative space to understand how microaggressions shaped their views of the world and their practices as educational leaders. We see Freire’s model of dialectic reflection as a means to support students and fight racial injustice.

Authors

• James F. Lane, University of Phoenix

• Alyncia M. Bowen, Franklin University

• Shaquanah Robinson, Mobile County Public School System