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Session Type: Symposium
This session brings together research on state takeover across a variety of state and district contexts, including New Orleans, Houston, Little Rock, and California. Using different methodological approaches, presenters reveal how takeover policy institutionalizes racial structures while aligning their scholarship with grassroots organizations actively resisting takeover’s assault on their communities. Advancing our understanding of takeover policy as a racialized project of disenfranchisement and dispossession, these studies also shed light on the essential work of rebuilding democracy at the grassroots amid contested and increasingly polarized political environments. The efforts highlighted in this session are community-led, and affiliated researchers foreground the need for critical self-reflexivity, long-term commitment, and solidarity as part of any legitimate grassroots collaboration.
Urban South Grassroots Research Collective: How a New Orleans Coalition Advanced Community Agency Amid Takeover - Kristen L. Buras, Urban South Grassroots Research Collective; Raynard Sanders, New Orleans Imperative
Organizing for Transformational Change: Community Voices for Public Education and Grassroots Resistance to the State Takeover of Houston ISD - Daniel Dawer, University of Texas at Austin; Jasmin Lee, Rice University; Ruth Kravetz, Community Voices for Public Education
The Coalitional Politics of District Debt: Bridging Grassroots Power and State Policy in California - René Espinoza Kissell, University of California - Santa Cruz
State Takeover of Little Rock School District—Ten Years Later - Davis Clement, Eastern Michigan University; Donya Odom, Eastern Michigan University