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Refuge, Resistance, and Reimagination: Racial Affinity Spaces for Educators of Color Across the Pipeline

Fri, April 25, 11:40am to 1:10pm MDT (11:40am to 1:10pm MDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2D

Session Type: Symposium

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This session presents four papers that explore educators of Color across the pipeline (preservice teachers, inservice teachers and teacher educators) who have sought refuge from and resistance toward a white dominant education system. Given that the teaching profession is overwhelmingly white, and that the current political climate has banned topics surrounding race and racism within classrooms, teachers of Color often find themselves in a hostile field that pushes against their pursuits of educational justice (Kohli 2021). Reminiscent of what bell hooks calls a homeplace, the four papers will address how educators of Color have navigated and resisted white supremacy within teaching and how racial affinity spaces for teachers inspire spaces to learn, heal, and reimagine a racially just education.

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