Knowing Otherwise: Methods, Archives and Educational Research Reimagined through Black Radical Traditions

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel advances methods and epistemologies that revisit and expand Black intellectual legacies. Through critical examination of historical anti-Blackness in learning spaces, the scholars on this panel collectively leverage history towards identifying sites that disrupt racialized patterns and animate Black life, grammars, and technologies within educative sites within and beyond schools. In particular, panelists address educational inequities and invisibility, while seeing layers within dilemmas faced by Black youth, educators, and organizers traversing (formal and informal) educational spaces. Building upon and expanding a radical Black feminist, BlackCrit, anticolonial tradition, the participants in this panel propose new grammar, future norms (Winn, 2025), pedagogies, and modalities for seeing, framing, and envisioning Blackness’ relationship to educational institutions while centering Black knowledge production.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 2: Exploring Past, Present, and Future Curricular Questions

Chair

• Malathi Michelle Iyengar, College of San Mateo

Papers

• Openings: Breach, Black Liveliness, and the Curriculum-as-Event - Wilson Kwamogi Okello, Pennsylvania State University

• Futuring Education Through Archival Praxis - Chelsea Bouldin, Syracuse University

• Fashioning New Grammars: Black Posterity, Interdisciplinarity and Critical Educative Spaces - Brenda Nyandiko Sanya, Colgate University; Durell M. Callier, University of Delaware; Dominique C. Hill, Colgate University

• Safety for Whom? Black Caribbean Immigrant Youth Negotiating Policing in London and New York Schools - Derron Wallace, Brandeis University

• Seeing the Unknown, Sensing the Possible: Unhobbling & CritQuant, A Critical, Creative Literacy Design - ParKer Bryant, Syracuse University

Session Organizer

• Brenda Nyandiko Sanya, Colgate University

Discussant

• Malathi Michelle Iyengar, College of San Mateo