"This Is How We Do It": Utilizing Critical Race Methodologies to Center Blackness in Educational Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

As critical Black educators and educational scholars, we consider critical race methodologies that explicitly center Blackness in order to challenge antiblackness in education. Seeking to engage in research that opens the possibility for greater change for marginalized people, and more specifically Black people, we considered: How can we bear witness to the experiences of Black people using tools that liberate rather than oppress? This session attempts to use CRT as methodology by centering its original tenets and the experiences of racialized people. We seek to reinvigorate conversations about the critical use of CRT in educational scholarship and to explore the potential for CRT to be used by researchers and educational stakeholders.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Chair

• Alexis Freeman, University of Florida

Papers

• We Still on Race? Reviewing Student Suspension Outcomes in Correlation With Administrator Race - D'Annette Mullen, University of Florida

• Going Back to Black: Exploring Black Boys' Literacy Experiences and Achievement Outcomes - Mario Worlds, University of Florida

• BSU in 2060? Revisiting the Black Student Union at University X Through Composite Storytelling - Matthew Paul Cowley, University of Florida; Tianna Dowie-Chin, University of Georgia

Discussant

• Christopher L. Busey, United Soccer League