AERA Presidential Documentary Series: The Big Payback

Session Type: Documentary

Abstract

Discussion on school / education is not explicit. However, it ties with pedagogy, remedy, and repair, as the central premise is a documentation of HR40 in Evanston, Illinois, focused on longstanding advocacy and overdue reparations to African American families. It's applicable to #1 session, thinking about the role that local governments can play in enacting these reparations and repairs, and subsequently, posing the possibility of building curriculums of reparations anchored in community-based struggles for reparations (relevant for #2, though this is not necessarily discussed in the documentary itself). Lastly, it also speaks to #3, on how social study of reparations can remedy divisions rooted in the example of financial / monetary reparations for Black and African American communities.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Film Maker

• Erika Alexander, Color Farm Media

• Whitney Dow, Director