Ain’t You Tired: Critical Race Hermeneutics as Clap Back

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This praxis-directed symposium brings together scholars applying Critical Race Hermeneutics (CRH) to explore the questions, within a white supremacist context, how do we interpret and interrogate racial texts about and directed towards our work as racial justice educators? How can both the method of our analyses and our analyses in themselves engage praxis to confront racist discourse? Through CRH, the presuppositions that guide our interpretive process are made transparent, which is that white supremacy exists in normalized, naturalized, and rationalized ways. The panelists’ collective research, then, seek to offer “clap back” remedies to ongoing attacks–whether subtle or overt–against racialized peoples and racial justice work. In doing so, we work towards collective repair from the pervasiveness of white supremacy.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• G.T. Reyes, California State University - East Bay

Papers

• "So what if you didn’t intend to?”: How Critical Race Hermeneutics Reinterprets the Racist Ish People Say and Do - Cheryl E. Matias, University of San Diego

• “It ain’t all roses and rainbows”: CRT to Praxis and the Scars it Leaves Behind - Luis Alberto Legaspi, University of San Diego

• The Clap Back: A Dangerous, Not-So-Nice, Critical Race Love Letter - G.T. Reyes, California State University - East Bay

Discussant

• Patrick Camangian, University of San Francisco