Toward an Archeology of Collective Solidarity: Co-conspirator Leadership as Racial Healing, Justice, and Liberation

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

As practitioners, leaders, and researchers, antiblackness (Dumas, 2016) and white supremacist culture (Okun, 2021) impacts our social identities, histories, and educational experiences. Knowing how power, privilege, and oppression manifests differently within dominant, racially minoritized, and intersectional positionalities, our symposium applies and builds upon the Archeology of Self™ (Sealy-Ruiz, 2022) to examine the ontoepistemological and methodological realities, challenges, and possibilities when co-conspiring (Love, 2019) towards racial healing, social justice, and collective liberation. Drawing from our institutional contexts, we present teaching, leading, and research that offers a path towards collective solidarity, by modeling how to: (1) address racial (in)justices on personal, interpersonal, and institutional levels; and (2) (re)center racial healing within schools and institutions of higher education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Leadership for Social Justice

Chair

• Kiese Vita, California State University - East Bay

Papers

• Endarkened Spiritual Alchemy: Black Women Educators’ Self-Excavation as a Spirit-Protecting and Soul-Healing Praxis - Kiese Vita, California State University - East Bay

• Critical Historical Sense Making: Locating Where I am Within a Multicultural Coalition to Disrupt Anti-Blackness - Derek Wang, California State University - East Bay

• (Y)Our Problem is Y(Our) Work: Disrupting Embodiments and Enactments of Whiteness within Institutions - Ashley Rae Koch, Five Keys Schools and Programs

Discussant

• Tyisha J Noise, Los Angeles County of Education