An Invitation to the Archive: Intergenerational Dialogue As/Toward Post-White Thought and Practice in 21st-Century Education

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

What might a research agenda of Black Studies/Study in education be if focused on
recognizing, resisting, and recovering from the false notion of White preeminence in every way
in the 21st century (i.e. post-White thought and practice in the 21st century), as for instance
already demonstrated by African intellectual heritage and artifacts (e.g. Asante & Abarry, 1996),
innumerable material to discursive racially Black critical projects (e.g. Berry & Gross, 2020;
Black Resistance Movements; Black Wall Streets; Black Arts Movement; Black Music; Du Bois,
1920; 1935; Black Legislators discussed in Foner, 1996; French, 2021; Harris, 1988; Harrison,
2001; Spillers, 1987; African American religion discussed in Long, 2000; Negro Spirituals
discussed in Thurman, 1945; Wilberforce University and HBCUs; Woodson, 1933; Wynter,
1994; 2003; 2006; etc.), as well as micro- to macrosociopolitical accomplishments that advance
humanity amid ongoing racialization (e.g. Civil Rights, Peace, Black Lives Matter, and
Comprehensive Education Movements; for the latter see Gordon & Rebell, 2007 and Varenne &
Gordon, 2009)? Also, how might post-White oriented, intergenerational dialogue (re)organize,
(re)energize, and guide us toward a 21st century research commons?

Sub Unit

• AERA Honorary President Edmund W. Gordon Series

Cosponsor

• AERA Science and Policy Sessions

Chair

• Joyce E. King, Georgia State University

Participants

• Marcus Croom, Indiana University

• T. Elon Dancy, University of Pittsburgh

• kihana miraya ross, Northwestern University

• Fikile Nxumalo, University of Toronto - OISE

Discussants

• Joyce E. King, Georgia State University

• Ezekiel J. Dixon-Roman, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Zeus Leonardo, University of California - Berkeley