Ethnic Studies and the Praxis of Transgressive-Racialization: Liberation Learners Exploring the Unmaking of Race (Poster 38)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Thursday 2:15pm
  In Invited Poster Session: Research Engagement and Development with Youth (READY) Program Invited Poster Session

Abstract

This youth-led study explores how California's Ethnic Studies classrooms serve as sites where students critically examine and disrupt racialization. Student researchers conduct year-long youth participatory action research that integrates Leonardo's raceclass analysis and Engeström’s third-generation activity theory (CHAT). We develop transgressive-racialization as an applied framework and practice for refusing, disrupting, and reimagining racial projects. Students design formative interventions that confront racialization and generate alternative ways of being. Using classroom observations, artifacts, and photo-elicitation interviews, student researchers ask: 1) How do I see race and class influencing my experiences in school and my community?; 2) How do community and family practices reinforce or resist the racial messages we learn in school?; and 3) What does it mean to “unmake race”?

Authors

• Jonathan Desmon Russell Pérez, The School of The New York Times

• Kimberly Jimenez-Martin, Coliseum College Prep Academy

• Jesus Gutierrez Flores, Coliseum College Prep Academy

• Juan Chavez Martinez, Coliseum College Prep Academy

• Icker Merida Gramajo, College Coliseum Prep Academy

• Christian Hernandez Martinez, College Coliseum Prep Academy

• Tajanea Clark, College Coliseum Prep Academy