Theorizing, Research, and Renewal Within the Black Intellectual Tradition: “How Do It Free Us?”

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium explores how the Black Intellectual Tradition contributes to a group of intergenerational scholars as they conduct the educational research work of remedying and repairing the educational system. Drawing on the African worldview in the scholarship of Asa Hilliard, Wade Nobles, Jacob Carruthers, and Molefi Asante, for example, this symposium recognizes the Black Intellectual Tradition in the Ma’atian Ideals of ancient Egypt (Nobles, 2008; Rashid, 2024). Shared narratives will review panelists’ epistemic journeys toward Black intellectual liberation through healing from Eurocentric ideals and educational practice, including research-as-pedagogy. The papers dialogue with one another to demonstrate the transformative impact of the Black Intellectual Tradition on the scholarly has on the journey of the presenters.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 6: Inquiry in the Social Context of Education

Chair

• Lasana D. Kazembe, Indiana University - Indianapolis

Papers

• The Guardians of Heritage: An Auto-Afronographic Self-Reflexive Analysis of a Black Studies Intervention - Joyce E. King, Georgia State University

• Anteriors and Interiors: The Black Intellectual Tradition as Spiritwork and Black Fightback - Lasana D. Kazembe, Indiana University - Indianapolis

• HeKA and YPARE: Integrating Ma’atian Principles in Youth-Led Ethical Research and Evaluation for Social Change - Adrienne C. Goss, Clark Atlanta University; Melissa Speight Vaughn, Georgia State University

• Ancestral Agency as Liberatory Research: Guardians of Heritage Graduate Students’ Experiences - Danie Marshall, Georgia State University; Candice Pettaway, Georgia State University

Discussant

• Lynda L. Osborne, Genuine Parts Company