51.018 - Division F Fireside Chat. Transnational Histories of the Americas: Citizenship, Schooling, and Identity Formation

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session exemplifies the AERA theme through multimodal narratives of educational history, identity, public policy, schooling, migration, and transnational histories. Emphasizing histories of the Americas, this session brings together leading educational historians, public scholars, policy analysts, oral historians, and champions of justice. Marking milestones in the quest for citizenship, freedom, public schooling, civil rights, social justice, and educational equity, this session privileges the voices of Indigenous peoples, people of African descent, and immigrants in the Americas. Through historical truths and primary sources, this session documents the journeys and passage of those often forgotten, dismissed, massacred, or marginalized from 1619 to 2019. It also critically examines multiple narratives that have shaped the history of public education within American nations.

Sub Unit

• Graduate Student Council

Chair

• Carolyn Silva, University of Florida

Participants

• Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia

• Dionne Danns, Indiana University

• K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Arizona State University

• Mario Rios Perez, Syracuse University

Discussant

• Lori M. West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign