Black Educational Futurism as Praxis: Re/membering Through the Curation of Black Intellectual Lineage

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In an era of imperialist reclamation in education (e.g., anti-DEI policies), Black scholars and critical educators curate intellectual and pedagogical spaces rooted in Black onto-epistemologies and ancestral memory. This symposium merges interdisciplinary approaches to theorizing Black space as a site of remembrance and resistance. Building on an archaeology of Black memory (Scott, 2008; Hanchard, 2008), memory in educational thought (Ohito, 2023; Rice, 2011), and rememory (Morrison, 1987; Saleh-Hanna, 2015), it offers a collaborative praxis of futuring against socio-political fatigue. These collective histories—spanning personal origins, disciplines, and pedagogies—signal that Black educational futurism demands integrative praxis. Rememory emerges as a justice-oriented practice through which Black scholars theorize liberatory educational lineages bridging ancestral knowledge with future-facing visions across the PK-20 spectrum.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice

Chair

• Imani J. Wallace, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Papers

• Blackly World Construction: Curricular Un/Makings and the Grammar of Black Joy - Justin A. Coles, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

• Honoring the Past, Shaping the Future: Engaging Black Preservice Math Teachers with the Black Teacher Archive - Lateefah Ameerah Id-Deen, Kennesaw State University

• Unforgetting and (Re)membering Black Education Theorizing in the Educational Leadership and Policy Classroom - Darrius A. Stanley, University of Minnesota

• Unforgetting Epistemologies: Black Feminisms, Epistemic Exclusion, and the Intellectual Labor of Black Women Scholars - Tonisha B. Lane, Virginia Tech

Session Organizer

• Darrius A. Stanley, University of Minnesota

Discussant

• Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, University of South Florida