About Us, By Us: Collaborative Curriculum Development for Reparative Action

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Abstract

This paper explores a case of survivors, community activists, researchers, and teachers collaborating to develop reparative curricula about a local and recent history involving state violence against Black communities. The insights gleaned from this project have the potential to guide other historically disenfranchised communities in cultivating critical processes for the development of collaborative community-built curricula that are designed to support youth in taking reparative action against past and present injustices. Such reparative curricular efforts humanize historical actors, challenge dominant narratives whose distortions dehumanize communities, and amplify the experiences, perspectives and demands of survivors and directly impacted communities.

Authors

• Tiferet Ani, University of Pennsylvania

• Krystal Strong, Rutgers University