Undoing Acts of Historical Erasure: Breaking from Dominant Frames of White Wupremacy as Civic Engagement

• In Event: Expanding Possibilities: Equity, Identity, and Culture in Out-of-School Time Spaces

Abstract

Undoing acts of historical erasure is a form of civic engagement in which, especially white young people and adults, rarely participate. Instead, civics and social studies curricula, as well as stories memorialized in public spaces, too often perpetuate the historical erasure of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in accounts of community and national development. How then, might interactions and digitally mediated learning activities, that are intergenerational, interracial, and interinstitutional (e.g., public schools, public library, liberal arts college, and city government), restore/re-story the complexity, heterogeneity, and pain of how places came to be? This project endeavors to answer these questions in an out-of-school time (OST) design study located in a nonmetropolitan community in the Southeastern United States.

Authors

• Katie Headrick Taylor, University of Washington

• Audrey Harris, University of Washington