Talkin’ Bout a(n) (Educational) Revolution   

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable Session 1
  In Paper Session: Revolution or Reproduction? Reimagining Education

Abstract

This paper illuminates the powerful experiences, analyses, and speculations of Black parents, teachers, and community organizers who have experienced and resisted school closures in Chicago over a 20-year period. Utilizing conceptualizations of Critical Studyin' and kitchen table talk methodologies, this paper illuminates the ways that Black folks' everyday talk—talk that situates and shares lived experiences with others, with room to grow into collective understandings and meaning-making—gives way to new forms of analyses and action(s).

Authors

• Khalila Lomax, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

• Asif Wilson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Kristy Ulrich Papczun, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Education