Embracing Quilombismo: Echoes in the Africana World: Mothership Connections: Research Tour

Session Type: Paper Session

Abstract

The project encompassed multiple elements of research and creative activity to include urban education, as a formative area of inquiry and cultural exchange. This cultural exchange portion called Mothership Connections extends the work of Echoes, which also has a student research component in the form of a virtual cohort with undergraduates from Bahia, Cape Coast, Ghana, Barbados, Atlanta, GA, and IU Indianapolis. The papers comprising this vice-presidential session will explore aspects of the aspirational outcomes of Mothership Connections. The discussants will explore the project’s themes and their implications for deeper explorations into transnational African Diasporic frameworks for translational research. The discussants will present on the ways Mothership Connections activities converged to generate new pathways to scholarship during the trip.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education

Chair

• Leslie Kenneth Etienne, Indiana University - Indianapolis

Papers

• Finding Home: Healing, Renewal, and Diasporic Consciousness - Lasana D. Kazembe, Indiana University - Indianapolis

• A Trajectory in Reverse: Organizing and Planning Transnational Approaches to Black Studies - Leslie Kenneth Etienne, Indiana University - Indianapolis

• Traveling to Bahia Salvador as Healing, Renewal and Black Joy: An Autoethnography - Cleveland Hayes, Indiana University - Indianapolis

• Navigating New Horizons: Developing a Culturally Responsive Study Abroad Program to Ghana for Future Educators, Bridging Global Perspectives and Inclusive Practices - Tina Sherrell O'Neal, Indiana University - Indianapolis; Ebonye Monique Janiece Crowe, Indiana University - Indianapolis

Discussant

• Leslie Kenneth Etienne, Indiana University - Indianapolis