Care in Containment: Indigenous and Black Geographies of Care in Schooling (Poster 13)

• In Event: Excellence in Education Research: Early Career Scholars and Their Work Poster Session

Abstract

This dissertation responds to growing pessimism about solidarity, coalitions, and allyship by investigating what rural reservation schools in South Dakota can teach us about Black and Indigenous encounters, solidarities, and possible futures. I think with educational studies and Black, Native, feminist, and queer theories to co-articulate a shared genealogy of Black and Native carework in contexts of containment. Through ethnographic research, interviews, and a Black feminist method(ology) of collage, I argue that both Black and Native educators practice care as self-defense that exceeds (for better and for worse) the boundaries of school, the violence of colonial racialization [through wardship], and the linear colonial timespace of modernity to mitigate schooling’s carceral technologies of containment.

Author

• Anna Almore, University of Michigan