Black Roots and Reservoirs: Reclaiming Black Education Through Radical Everyday Knowledge Cultivation

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel seeks to reclaim knowledge-making by highlighting three Black communities' local particularities and practices and their formal and informal educational experiences. Through embodied literacies and racialized particularities, the panelists resist and refuse white hegemonic understandings of knowing and knowledge production, highlighting the repertoire of Black cosmological, epistemological, and linguistic practices that shape geographies and terrains of struggle and possibility in the wake of enslavement. Utilizing multi- and transdisciplinary approaches, the panelists suggest ontoepistemological and linguistic frameworks rooted in Black Geographies (McKittrick, 2006) and Black Radical Tradition (Robinson, 2020) to shape the future of Black education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Education

Chair

• Courtney A Douglass, University of Maryland

Papers

• “We Must Become Undisciplined”: Reimaging Black Education through Black Epistemologies - Cambria Conley, University of Maryland

• Watery Linguistic Depths: Intergenerational Storytelling as Pedagogical Resistance & Geographic Reorientation - Taylor Lewis, University of Maryland

• Waterbearers Against the Dark: Gullah Geechee Women and the Makings of Black Radical Education - Amber Chevaughn Johnson, University of Maryland

Discussant

• Courtney A Douglass, University of Maryland