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Placing Blackness: An exploration of Black STEM students’ connections to place identity

Sat, April 11, 11:45am to 1:15pm PDT (11:45am to 1:15pm PDT), Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 303A

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The papers in this panel are broadly interested in a collection of ideas that examine the real and imagined homelands, migrations, and markers of history and belonging for Black people. Black geographies identify socio-spatial events, or significant cultural moments that help us understand how Black people “are shaped by, and are shaping, the imaginative, three-dimensional, social, and political contours of human geographies” (McKittrick & Woods, 2007, p. 5). All papers in this symposium build theory that connects the historical experience of dispossession to undergraduate students’ identity formation. Race and place work together to produce personal and collective identities. We argue this knowledge can be used to empower yet another source of intrinsic motivation for Black undergraduate STEM majors.

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