Race, Identity, and Social Resiliency in the Context of Cultural Practice

• In Event: Roundtable Session 14

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This symposium examines the race, identity, and social resiliency in three cultural contexts— an African American vernacular English dominant afterschool program for high school girls in Minneapolis, Minnesota, all-Black, all-male manhood development classes for African American adolescents in Oakland, California, and a Black Missionary Baptist Church in Northern California. Taking a humanistic perspective, we draw insights from social and learning theory to examine how racial identity and resiliency narratives might function in cultural. We argue that talk and images about race, identity, and resiliency present a valid intellectual entry to community-based problem solving, enabling and empowering youth to view themselves as viable, self-actualized contributors.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Social Context of Research on Schools and Communities

Chairs

• Carol D. Lee, Northwestern University

• Tryphenia B. Peele-Eady, University of New Mexico

Papers

• Lil' Momma "Gone Work It Out": Youth Problem Solving Through Cultural Ways of Knowing - Yolanda J. Majors, The University of Minnesota

• Modeling Manhood: Interrogating and Reframing Representations of Black Masculinity in School - Nailah Suad Nasir, University of California - Berkeley

• Black History, Culture, and Identity Frames in the Black Church Bulletin - Tryphenia B. Peele-Eady, University of New Mexico