"Being Free": A Critical Genealogy of Black Women's Liberatory Pedagogies Through Scholar-Activism

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Fourteen
  In Roundtable Session: Freedom for Women of Color: Liberation, Love, and Healing (Table 14)

Abstract

This manuscript centers acknowledges the history of scholar-activism by Black women and identifies the ways that this history influences the practices of Black women educators using liberatory pedagogies with K-12 students contemporarily. I start with a reflection on and analysis of four Black women scholar activists: Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells, Septima Poinsette Clark, and Gwendolyn Patton. I choose to focus on these women in order to represent four themes in their praxis toward Black Liberation: racialized and gendered matrices of oppression; truth-telling; citizenship; and theory as praxis. From this analysis, I critically examine the liberatory pedagogies of Black women educators as individual case studies contemporarily, placing them in conversation with historic portrayals of Black women’s scholar-activism.

Author

• Alannah Sheri Caisey, NORC at the University of Chicago
  Presenting Author