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Freedom Dreaming: Black and Latinx Youths' Multimodal Compositions of Future Selves and Literacies

Thu, April 21, 8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT), Manchester Grand Hyatt, Floor: 2nd Level, Harbor Tower, Balboa A

Session Type: Symposium

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Our symposium presents critical studies that disrupt and dismantle dominant narratives that narrowly circumscribe the futures of Black and Latinx youth. Recognizing the urgent need for critical qualitative research that privileges Black and Latinx youth as multimodal knowledge makers, we address two key questions: 1) What might qualitative researchers learn from Black and Latinx youths’ multimodal compositional practices of dreaming in a broken world? and 2) How might qualitative research inform practitioners’ understanding of how these youth multimodally design social futures that are self-determined, liberatory, and hopeful? Consistent with the conference theme, our symposium fosters critical dialogue about what it means to create equitable educational systems that foster racial justice and nurture the freedom dreaming of Black and Latinx youth.

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