Sophisticated Racial Tools: Expanding the Explanatory Power of Critical Race Praxis

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session examines the application of Critical Race Studies across educational contexts. We present research that: 1) Explores one institute of higher education’s response to a PK-12 school district’s CRT ban; 2) Examines a Critical Race Solidarity Framework informed by AsianCrit; 3) Advances Critical Race Pedagogy as it applies to office hours; and 4) A case study braiding trauma-informed pedagogies with CRT. We share research that illuminates transformational methodological, pedagogical, and conceptual tools of CRT to interrogate and disrupt the persistence of white supremacy and interlocking oppressions in education. Collectively, we offer insights for researchers to use CRT as remedy and repair, amplifying explanatory frameworks of critical race praxis in service of students and communities of Color.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Chair

• JC Lugo, California State University - Northridge

Papers

• Speaking from the Edge: A Response to a School District CRT Ban - Carolina Valdez, California State University - Fullerton

• AsianCrit through Ethnic Studies Education: An Asian American Critical Race Solidarity Framework - Tracy Lachica Buenavista, California State University - Northridge; Edward R. Curammeng, California State University - Dominguez Hills; Stephanie Cariaga, California State University - Dominguez Hills

• Each One, Teach One: Toward a Critical Race Pedagogy Framework for Office Hours - José Manuel Aguilar-Hernández, California State Polytechnic University - Pomona

• Love as a Critical Race Trauma-Informed Pedagogy - Sharim Hannegan-Martinez, University of Michigan

Discussant

• Daniel Gilbert Solorzano, University of California - Los Angeles