Cross-Talkin’: Black parents and youths’ resistance, education, and action

Abstract

In this three-part article, we present two studies of Black political education and resistance to archive and document examples of the ongoing struggle for educational equity. In the first portion of the article, Goss’s study uses an analysis of race, power, and policy to map the evolution of school discipline reform legislation, and advocacy efforts enacted by members of a particular parent community organization. Using archival and life history interview data, Patel presents a cross-generational examination of the internal political education and external public pedagogies that Black youth engaged in during the 1960s and how that echoes into various contemporary social movements for Black and brown young peoples’ rights. The article closes with a duoethnographic discussion in which both authors contribute what is contextually salient across both studies in the interest of what readers might consider about education, resistance, and freedom struggles in their own spaces.