Tag: Racial Identity

Opinion

How and Where We Exit: Seven Propositions on Black Positionalities in the Pandemics Era

The world has tried to recalibrate after the seismic shift that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacted on key aspects of everyday life, as we once knew it. For certain populations, this shift has been coupled with a cataclysmic jolt. For Black people globally, and specifically for African-Americans in the United States, the battle has been at best—formidable. While the Black gaze focused on the destruction and devastation that COVID-19 was exacting, it was the concomitant spread of a second pandemic, racism, which proved to be just as, if not even more virulent for the Black community.

June 30, 2020

African-American

Blackness in the Academy: Who Owns the Truth?

Blackness, who owns it? Perhaps a better question to ponder is, can Blackness be owned? As I reflect on this complex question, I am very aware that my positionality as a Black male is always going to be an intersecting identity vector that I will never be able to erase.

August 30, 2019

Opinion

We Gon’ Be Alright: American Education Research Solidarity and the Counterspace Pachanga/Party

Considering race continues to be a topic of controversy and discomfort, it is important that we address how engagement and inclusion have expanded on the issues of identity for Blacks and Latino communities.

April 11, 2019