African American Student & Parent Experiences with Schools: Elementary through Higher Education

Session Submission Type: Panel Session

Abstract

The purpose of this panel is to explore African American student and parent experiences with schools from their own perspectives. The panel examines such experiences from elementary school through college, with a particular focus on intersectional identities. The case studies presented involve Black parents’ experiences engaging with an African American immersion school in the Midwest and how school-contextual factors shape their ability to have decision-making power and control in the school; African American girls’ experiences of microaggressions from their teachers at a middle school in Texas; the academic experiences of Black women transitioning to college life at both HBCUs and PWIs; and the learning experiences of African American college students in a “diversity requirement” course on racism at a Midwestern PWI.

Sub Unit

• 102nd Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

Chair

• Erin N Winkler, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Individual Presentations

• Black Parents’ Engagement and Advocacy in an African American Immersion School - Rachel A. Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Intersectional Microaggressions in Middle Schools: The experience of African American Girls - Crystal Edwards, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• Where do you go? Black Women's Experiences of Academic Transitions at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). - Jamila Lee-Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• “Don’t Vent on Topics That You Aren’t Informed About’: African American Student Experiences in a “Diversity Requirement” Course at a Predominantly White University - Erin N Winkler, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Commentator

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