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(Re)Building Democracy in the Wake of State Takeover: Community-Led Research and Resistance as Repair

Sat, April 26, 8:00 to 9:30am MDT (8:00 to 9:30am MDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2H

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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.

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