42.038 - Black Like Me: Urban Education and State Violence in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In light of state-sanctioned excessive violence and extrajudicial killings of Black people that have taken place in recent years, the papers presented in this session embody the pressing need to bring the urgency of #BlackLivesMatter to the field of urban education research to make a significant and urgent scholarly intervention. This panel symposium examines the implications of state violence against Black people in school settings and impacting out of school youth, domestically and globally. The papers presented in this session conceptualize and examine #BlackLivesMatter, the police state, and urban education from various disciplines and theoretical underpinnings, including anthropology and sociology of education, critical race theory, and a race radical analytical and political framework.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 4: Social Contexts of Educational Policy and Politics

Chair

• Camika Royal, Loyola University Maryland

Papers

• Teacher Education in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter - Edwin Mayorga, Swarthmore College; Bree Picower, Montclair State University

• Sub-Saharan Africa in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter - Krystal Strong, University of California - Berkeley

• #SayHerName: Black Girls and Women in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter - Angela N. Campbell, Cabrini College

• Suburban #BlackLivesMatter - R. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy, City College of New York - CUNY

• Black Educators as Convicted Felons in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter - Camika Royal, Loyola University Maryland; Vanessa Diane Dodo Seriki, Morgan State University

Discussant

• Marc Lamont Hill, Morehouse College