Resistance to Gentrification and Housing Insecurity: Centering the Situated Knowledge of Youth, Parents, and Community-Based Educational Spaces

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Gentrification and housing insecurity have grown in scope and complexity, holding critical implications for the lives of minoritized and low-income youth, families, and the broader social fabric of their neighborhoods and schools. Drawing on critical theories and the situated knowledge and resistance by young people, parents, and community-based educational spaces to gentrification and housing insecurity, this symposium calls for education scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to expand their understanding of how gentrification and housing insecurity shapes formal and informal educational spaces, and the lives of students, families, and educators. We suggest a deeper interrogation of the intersections of race, class, power, and place, alongside those engaging in ongoing efforts to empower and stay rooted in their communities.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Grassroots Community and Youth Organizing for Educational Justice

Chair

• Bianca Jontae Baldridge, Harvard University

Papers

• Latiné Parent Resistance to Housing Insecurity: Efforts to Stay Rooted in their Homes & Communities - Maria Velazquez, Stanford University

• Toward Collaborative Multisector Resistance: Black Community-based Educational Spaces Fighting Against Gentrification and Displacement - Bianca Jontae Baldridge, Harvard University; Moisés Gabriel Contreras, Harvard University; Zora Haque, Harvard University; Woohee Kim, Harvard University; Georgina Rivers, Harvard University; Michelle Amponsah, Harvard University; Nora Ngo Mitchell, Harvard University

• When Eggs Fight Against Rocks: Southeast Asian Refugee Resistance Against Gentrification and Displacement - Linda M. Pheng, University of Pennsylvania

Discussants

• Terrenda Corisa White, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Deepa Sriya Vasudevan, American Institutes for Research