Building Racial Solidarity Across Black and Asian Communities in K–20 Education Beyond COVID-19

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This session unites 5 multiracial scholar activists who are faculty, doctoral students, and urban teachers whose research and practice focuses on utilizing ethnic studies and counter storytelling as a transformative framework to reframe K-20 curriculum and pedagogy in centering the historic racial solidarity between Black and Asian communities. We argue that it is urgent for our increasingly multicultural society and school system to implement an ethnic studies curriculum and pedagogy that is critical, diverse, humanizing, and community-responsive in challenging the power structures of the status quo. We use the tenets and framework of ethnic studies scholarship and counter storytelling to build on the collective history and solidarity between Black and Asian Americans that have been erased in scholarship and public knowledge.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 04: The Socio-Cultural and Racial Foundations of Teaching and Teacher Education

Chair

• Betina Hsieh, California State University - Long Beach

Papers

• Decolonizing Our Histories and Minds in K–20 Education: Building Racial Solidarity Across Black and Asian Communities Beyond COVID-19 - Judy W. Yu, REACH

• On Solidarity: Expanding Black and Asian Narratives in ELA Classrooms - Diana Liu, Teachers College, Columbia University

• The Beautiful Tension: Restoring Conflicts Between Black and Asian Communities - Michael Cho, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Strengthening Our Black and Asian Solidarity Through Adversity - David O'Neil Beauzil, Teachers College, Columbia University

• A Historically and Racially Literate Approach to Black and Asian Solidarity - Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University