Arts-Based Youth Participatory Action Research: Youth Performances of Embodied Identity and Transformational Resistance

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 7
  In Roundtable Session: Liberatory Research Approaches With Young People: Youth Participatory Action Research and Youth Resistance (Table 25)

Abstract

Research indicates young people have a long and rich history of participating creatively in liberation movements that demonstrate their agency, resiliency, and ingenuity as agents of social change. Despite this history of youth leadership, a perpetual and damaging narrative surrounding the intersection of youth identity and people of color lingers. The purpose of this study is to conduct a six-month critical performance ethnography to investigate how Latinx youth perform their multidimensional identities to embody transformational resistance within an arts-based youth participatory action research group and multigenerational theater ensemble. As a result of this study, I offer implications for educators who strive to pedagogically equip young people with creative tools to respond culturally, agentically, and artistically to inequity in their communities.

Author

• Ashley D. Domínguez, University of Arizona