Distant Relatives: A Generational Examination of Black Girls' Experiences in Providence Public Schools

• In Event: Culture Wars in the Black Educational Landscape: An Exploration of Afrofuturism and Freedom Dreaming through a Social Justice Lens

Abstract

Princess E. Garrett’s work reminds us that there are common threads across Black stories that create connection and understanding of one another in ways that people outside the community cannot. Her work centers (re)membering, Black stories, and experiential mapping as a path toward healing. The paper My Sister and Me: Black Scholar Stories of Separation and Survivance explores anti-blackness, colorism, and marginalization of Black millennial women who attended the University of Rhode Island through a series of kitchen table talks. These conversations provide a space for mothers to imagine futures for their children as they navigate academia.

Author

• Princess E. Garrett, University of Massachusetts, Amherst