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Reimagining Rural Education in the Times of Black Lives Matter

Sat, April 23, 11:30am to 1:00pm PDT (11:30am to 1:00pm PDT), Manchester Grand Hyatt, Floor: 2nd Level, Harbor Tower, Old Town B

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Black matters are rural matters. Our symposium explores relationships among rural communities, the movement for Black Lives, and education. The symposium focuses especially on rural struggle—in the stories and reflections of a Black sociologist and organizer who led Black Lives Matter protests in her own rural and predominantly white Texas community; in an ethnographic study of how Black parents in Georgia took action to counter racism in their local rural schools; and in studies that examine the participation and leadership of Black and Latinx youth and college students in Black Lives Matter protests in their rural communities. This symposium highlights how the movement for Black lives in rural spaces is pedagogical and transformative.

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