Refusing Fragmentation: Constructing Belonging With/in Black and Immigrant Communities (Table 12)

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Thursday 8:00 a.m. Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Dismemberment projects of U.S. imperialism and settler colonialism privilege the ontologies and epistemologies of Western knowledge systems. Audra Simpson suggests that refusal is a critique that rejects, reframes, and refocuses hegemonic narratives surrounding a certain community; and disinvests from certain rules and relations that legitimate and maintain the colonial state. Against the backdrop of the fragmentation produced by U.S. militarism and settler colonialism, this session brings attention to the need to recover racial and ethnic heritage, relationships and collectivity. The four papers significantly theorize the refusal of fragmentation among minoritized Black, refugee and immigrant communities to remedy and repair toward just education futures.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Bic Ngo, University of Minnesota

Papers

• Towards (Re)Loving Our Own Communities: Cambodian and Lao American Girls Grappling with Internalized Racism - Diana Chandara, University of Minnesota

• Teachers of Color Talk Back: Creating Undercommons Spaces to Interrupt State-Sanctioned Whiteness and Teacher (Mis)education - Bisola A. Wald, University of Minnesota

• Viet within the “Vietnamese”: An Exploration of the Divergence in Vietnamese American and Vietnamese Immigrant Experiences - Bao Diep, University of Minnesota

• Seeking Discomfort: Constructing the Ally in a High School ELA Classroom with Somali American Youth - Nicole Richardson, University of Minnesota