Rooted: The Influences of Ancestral Archives with Black and Latina Femmes (Poster 19)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Friday 11:45am
  In Invited Poster Session: AERA Promising Scholarship in Education Research: Dissertation Fellows and Their Research Poster Session

Abstract

This Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) study draws on Black feminist insights that communities of color possess the wisdom and capacity to heal and organize for social transformation (hooks, 1993; Lorde, 1984). The project creates a space of self-recovery (hooks, 1993) where femme youth of color can situate themselves, their histories, and sociopolitical contexts. Guided by the Ghanaian principle of Sankofa, youth engage in (re)memory (Morrison, 1987), attending to grief and creative processes that recover past wisdoms to inform present and future action. Centering Black and Latina femme youth as co-researchers, the study examines how ancestral archives shape personal and collective approaches to healing and social justice, contributing to participatory research on identity, healing justice, and social change.

Author

• Alexis E. Hunter, University of Colorado - Boulder