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Radical Dreams: Using the Anti-War Lessons of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Fight for Students of Color

Mon, April 16, 8:15 to 9:45am, Sheraton New York Times Square, Floor: Second Floor, Metropolitan East Room

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

In this symposium we draw on King’s anti-war speech “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” to guide a discussion on the pervasiveness of materialism, militarism, and racism—or what King termed the “triplets of war”—in U.S. education. The panelists will outline how the triplets manifest in education and present critical qualitative research papers that interrogate the relationship between STEM education and the U.S. military; conceptualize pedagogies of rebellion in context of American imperialism; and critique occupation education and settler colonialism. We seek to radicalize the oft-perceived liberal dreams of King and offer diverse ways that educators can use his anti-war lessons to resist the contemporary educational conditions that wage war against students of color.

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