Reciprocity and Resilience: An Urban Historically Black College/University's Response to Anti-Black Community Dispossession and Displacement

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 6
  In Roundtable Session: Dismantling Anti-Blackness in Educational Research and Practice (Table 27)

Abstract

HBCUs have a deep-rooted historical mission to serve and uplift their community. As the Black community was built around their HBCUs, HBCUs shaped their curriculum to serve their community. Over the last few decades, urban HBCU communities have been dispossessed by an influx of malignant settlers that have little connection or concern about the culture of their community or its historic bond with the neighborhood HBCU. Using instrumental case study critical action research, this research explores how an urban HBCU responds to antiblack community dispossession. It advances a resiliency-based perspective that offers critical insight into the intricate relationship between campus and community and builds on urban education frameworks to understand how education is contextually situated in place and time.

Author

• Gina English Tillis, University of Memphis