16.030 - The Parent-School-Community Nexus: The Role of Critical Race Parenting in Racially Just Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In a holistic sense, educating for change necessarily entails a critical analysis of contexts both in- and outside of school. In an age where increasingly frequent reports of racialized violence are broadcast into homes via mainstream media, this panel engages in an exploration of the roles that parents, community members, and educators play in raising critical awareness through dialogue about racial inequality, all through an intersectional Critical Race Parenting lens. More specifically, this panel engages in the particular challenges embedded in approaching such issues in white, Black, and biracial contexts. Furthermore, there will be consideration given to the symbiotic relationship between the kinds of racial education children receive in formal and informal settings, along with implications for racially-just educators.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 2: Studies of diversity and variation with social contexts of education

Chair

• Cheryl E. Matias, University of Colorado - Denver

Papers

• I Might Be Maroon: Racial Socialization of Biracial (Black/White) Boys - Joy Howard, University of Southern Indiana

• The Nexus of Black Rage and Healing Praxis: A Critical Autoethnography - Janiece Zalina Mackey, Young Aspiring Americans for Social and Political Activism (YAASPA)

• Interpreting Race: A Critical Hermeneutical Approach to Raising Race-Conscious White Children - Pete Newlove, University of Colorado - Denver; Cheryl E. Matias, University of Colorado - Denver

• This One Time at Summer Camp: A Critical Approach for a Race-Conscious Curriculum - Ronda Taylor Bullock, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Discussant

• Dorinda Carter Andrews, Michigan State University