Creative Research for Social Justice in Schools, Families, and Communities in the U. S. South

Multiple Presenter Session: Panel

Abstract

Multiethnic researchers share their creative research programs for social justice that aim for “dismantling racial injustice and constructing educational possibilities” in schools, families, and communities in the U. S. South. Using Black Feminist methodology/Black Feminist narrative, composite counterstories, speculative essays, speculative memoir, oral histories, fiction, Black speculative fiction, Black geographies, and ethnography with young children as forms of inquiry, these researchers explore creative ways to push methodological boundaries, perform dissertation writing, and liberate academic writing by diving into life, writing into contradictions, and living against oppressions in schools, families, and communities in the U. S. South. Innovative writings engendered from the inquiries will be demonstrated. Potentials/challenges/future directions of creative forms of inquiries and modes of expression and representation will be discussed. Impact of their creative research for social justice on practice, policy, and historical, sociopolitical, economic, geographical, cultural, linguistic, and ecological contexts will be demonstrated.

Sub Track

• AESA

Chair

• Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University

Discussants

• William Schubert, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Sabrina N. Ross, Georgia Southern University

• Peggy Shannon-Baker, Georgia Southern University

Presenters

• Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University

• Peggy Shannon-Baker, Georgia Southern University

• Lucia Benzor, Georgia Southern University

• Ru Li, Maynard Jackson High School

• Sharifa Ned, Georgia Southern University

• Amy Comarda, Georgia Southern University

• Mayra Garcia-Diaz, Georgia Southern University

• Iantha Kittles, Georgia Southern University

• Dmetri Smith, Georgia Southern University

• Khristian Cooper, Georgia Southern University