TRAUE Special Issue on #BlackLivesMatter

Spring 2017: Conversations Across Educational and Community Spaces

Contributions

This special issue of TRAUE invited community members to lend their voices to the ongoing conversation about #BlackLivesMatter, race, and racism in education in the United States through a diverse array of forms and approaches. Below, see the articles, reflections, stories, poems, audio, music, and photographs submitted by our contributors. We seek to anthologize diverse perspectives and experiences by engaging topics related to identity as they intersect with educational institutions.

You can scroll through them following your own passions, or you can click below to see specially curated experiences based on themes.

SELECTED THEMES:
— Black Lives Matter in Teacher Education

— Intersections and Inclusion: Blackness and Bilingual Education

— Reflections on Blackness

(Note: Cover art commissioned and provided by the writer/writer from artist: Caesar Nash, Instagram: @thisisntmeoryou) Click here for PDF of this piece, which includes all citations and footnotes in text: Can’t Breathe, James So Soon Gantt Reflection: 2017 The song and lyrics to “Can’t Breathe” were primarily inspired by the […]

“CAN’T BREATHE” by James “SoSoon” Gantt
March 29, 2017 in Contributions / Reflections on Blackness by Sara Vogel, PhD. (she/her)

“HERE” by Tiffany Lenoi Jones I am here. I am their teacher tiff, t-dollas, booboolanda, ti-ti, ey yo tiff, tiffany, and Ma! I am their mother, auntie, big sister I am their co-conspirator I am their reflection I am their teacher I am their student I close my eyes Think […]

“HERE” and “Healing the Past & Present for the Future” ...
March 28, 2017 in Contributions / Reflections on Blackness by José Alfredo Menjivar

Middle school teacher Wendy Barrales and her students attended a #BlackLivesMatter march in December of 2014. As students were engaged in activism on the streets, they took part in a capstone project called the Injustice Project where they researched and presented on relevant issues in their communities.

“Photographs From the Field: Middle Schoolers Fight for Justice”
March 21, 2017 in Contributions by Sakina Laksimi Morrow

An authentic look at a historically rebellious people

“Black History in America” by Diane Price
March 20, 2017 in Contributions by Sara Vogel, PhD. (she/her)

And here we are again. Why do we have to say Black Lives Matter? We do because so many things have happened – so many things have changed, and yet so many things seem to remain the same. We can understand a pregnant twenty year old Mary Turner in the […]

“So Many Things Have Changed” by Margaret A. Blair
March 17, 2017 in Contributions by José Alfredo Menjivar

I close my eyes and tell myself that what I feel is not real. It is weakness and I cannot be weak. Not in front of you. I am peaceful. I am strong. That’s what I tell myself. But there is an emotional hurricane brewing: with every news story about […]

“We Will Not Stop” by Ashley Renee Causey-Golden
March 17, 2017 in Contributions / Personal Reflections by José Alfredo Menjivar

Immigrant Sings the Blues you assume my American life did not include food stamps and rodents; that I never had an ER doctor administer charcoal to get the extra tablets out of my blood stream. you assume my American life did not include death, debt, and numerous cries tossed to […]

“Immigrant Sings the Blues” by Zahra Gordon
March 13, 2017 in Contributions / Reflections on Blackness by Sakina Laksimi Morrow

The importance of dispositions

“Teacher Responsibility and Agency in System Change” by Madhu Narayanan
March 13, 2017 in Black Lives Matter in Teacher Education / Contributions by Sakina Laksimi Morrow

Historic Divisiveness as Articulated in Personal Narratives from One Hundred Years of Hope about the Confederate Flag in South Carolina and Racial Tension in the United States

“Southern Symbolism” by Devair Jeffries
March 13, 2017 in Contributions by Sakina Laksimi Morrow

After all is said and done the hands come down the chants stop the mouths close the signs are put away Time and morning threaten to wash us out we retreat to our homes before they arrive We get to go home. Get to see and hold our loved ones […]

“#BeyondtheMarches” by José Alfredo Menjivar
March 13, 2017 in Contributions by José Alfredo Menjivar

Cultivating Racial Identity in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter

“Please Pardon My Blackness” by Tiffany M. B. Anderson, Ph.D.
March 13, 2017 in Contributions / Reflections on Blackness by José Alfredo Menjivar

We been striving for our people to be free They want change but some can’t see It’s our time we been waiting to long Jim Crow know by the end of this song We feel Obama cause he look like us They never showed love, they never gave him trust […]

“Racism You Gotta Go” by Jeff Suttles
March 13, 2017 in Contributions by José Alfredo Menjivar

Attention Attention My Brother’s and Sistas We have a serious epidemic goin on out here Racism must stop I’m down with Black Lives Matter on this one Big shout out to the Beat Minerz, Let’s Go I can’t believe how it’s all going down Say I can’t breath in my […]

“Cross the Line” by Jeff Suttles
March 13, 2017 in Contributions by José Alfredo Menjivar

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Assumptions 101: The True Confessions of a White, Newbie Professor “Teaching” PoC Youth that Black Lives Matter Lydia Shestopalova Haven’t we all heard that “when you ‘assume,’ you make an ‘ass’ of ‘u’ and me”? I’ve even taught that. But I truly learned the lesson when using the lens of […]

“Assumptions 101” by Lydia Shestopalova
March 10, 2017 in Black Lives Matter in Teacher Education / Contributions by Robert P. Robinson (he/him/his)

“Do Black Lives Matter in Bilingual Education?” by Nelson Flores
March 7, 2017 in Contributions / Intersections and Inclusion: Blackness and Bilingual Education by Sara Vogel, PhD. (she/her)

Swimming Lessons: A Conversation in the Black Lives Matter Era by Kashema Hutchinson

“Swimming Lessons” by Kashema Hutchinson
March 6, 2017 in Contributions / Reflections on Blackness by Robert P. Robinson (he/him/his)

Lessons Learned in the Education of Black and Brown Children

“What’s a White Woman to Do?” by Corie McCallum
February 24, 2017 in Black Lives Matter in Teacher Education / Contributions by Sara Vogel, PhD. (she/her)

Points of union and division in bilingual and special education

“Who Is Excluded From Inclusion?” by Maria Cioè-Peña
February 24, 2017 in Contributions / Intersections and Inclusion: Blackness and Bilingual Education by Sara Vogel, PhD. (she/her)

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