In this talk, I explore what it means for Black students to navigate, refuse, and resist antiblackness in schools. I take seriously the ways slavery and its afterlives continue to mark Black learners, and yet I am committed to understanding how we carve out space – how we develop and sustain Black Educational Fugitive Space, for Black folks to sit with the weight of antiblackness in education while also engaging in the political act of Black dreaming—to imagine strategies for wrestling with our educational realities while building towards Black educational futurities. 

This event is co-sponsored by the Brown University Department of Education, The Annenberg Institute for School Reform, and the Department of Africana Studies.

Learn more about the Annenberg Institute’s Rethinking Race and Education Seminar Series.
 

Speaker

kihana miraya ross is an assistant professor of African American Studies. Her program of research draws on critical ethnographic and participatory design methodologies to examine the multiplicity of ways that antiblackness is lived by Black students in what she calls the afterlife of school segregation, a framework that illuminates the ways in which despite the end of legal segregation of schooling, Black students remain systematically dehumanized and positioned as uneducable. Learn more about Professor ross.
 

Attendance Options

This is a hybrid event.

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