"They're Already Punished Enough": Abolitionist Lessons From Black Women Alternative School Teachers

• In Event: In Pursuit of Justice: Teachers of Color as Change Agents

Abstract

While much of the literature on Black women teachers documents their legacy of addressing anti-black racism in teaching and learning (McKinney de Royston, 2020), very little research has focused specifically on the work of Black women educators at alternative schools. In this study, I used endarkened storywork (Toliver, 2021), a methodological approach derived from the convergence of Endarkened feminist epistemologies (Dillard, 2000) and Indigenous storywork (ISW) (Archibald, 2008), to grasp lessons from the storytelling of Black women educators at an alternative school in central Georgia. Drawing on three preliminary interviews, the question that guides this study is how do Black women educators’ praxis in non-traditional school spaces invite us to imagine new possibilities for Black futures in educational settings?

Author

• Jaminque L. Adams, University of Georgia
  Presenting Author