Working Toward Racial Justice in Narrative Research: #RaceJusticeNarrativeSyllabus

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Narrative inquiry, and narrative research more broadly, has played an important role in re-conceptualizing educational opportunity and pathways toward the unfulfilled promise of equity in education. Narrative inquiry as a research tool, however, has not yet taken up an explicit focus on racial justice. This session invites participants into conversation to consider how narrative inquiry could be more deliberately fashioned as a scholarly intervention in racial violence and a tool and process for use in racial justice movements. We ask: What does it mean to teach and learn for resistance and liberation? How is narrative research implicated in this effort? What is the responsibility and potential of narrative research in resistance and movements for racial justice?

Sub Unit

• SIG-Narrative Research

Chair

• Moira Ozias, University of Oklahoma

Papers

• An Epistemology of Pedagogical Resistance: Narrative Research as Critical Intervention and Preparation - Kirsten T. Edwards, University of Oklahoma

• Poetically Poking at Racialized Discourses: Narratively Analyzing Qualitative Data in (Black) Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis - Esther Oganda Ohito, Mills College; Tiffany M Nyachae, Buffalo State - SUNY

• Who Am I? Let Me Tell You - Ebony C. Pope, University of Oklahoma

• Narrative Inquiry as a Form of #RacialJustice for Black Women in Academia - Elizabeth Bowers Cook, Our Lady of the Lake University

• "Don't Punk Out," White Girl: Narrative Inquiry for Racial Justice as Remembering, Grieving, and Disinvesting in Whiteness - Moira Ozias, University of Oklahoma

Discussant

• Vijay Kanagala, The University of Vermont