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Session Submission Type: Panel
Black Studies, Black Feminisms, and Black Queer Thought unsettle disciplinary limits and offer alternative ways to conduct inquiry in education. In this session, we center forms of research around histories and cultures within the Black Radical Tradition. We draw from the creative works of Octavia Butler, Ernest Gaines, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Bisa Butler, Maya Angelou, Keguro Macharia, and Dionne Brand to demonstrate how knowledge-making requires expanding concepts across disciplinary boundaries. Black texts and artwork help us theorize in ways that have been devalued, erased, or forgotten in many dominant academic spaces. Aligned with AESA’s theme on dreaming otherwise worlds, the papers in this session co-conspire with black creative texts to unsettle ways of knowing, knowledge production, and inquiry in education.
Alisha Smith Jean-Denis, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Benjamin Scherrer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Nicole le Roux, UMass Amherst
Mariam Rashid, University of Massachusetts Amherst