Abstract
This introduction to the special two-part section of this journal shares the theoretical foundations of FLDC's work and the principles of solidarity-driven codesign that connect efforts across vastly different geographies, racial and ethnic communities, and contexts to reimagine ways forward towards educational justice. We illuminate methodological and theoretical trajectories of intertwined research and practice that seek to reckon with systems that have disregarded, alienated, and disproportionately harmed racially minoritized families and communities – and to envision paths forward centered on the priorities and dreams of those youth, families, and communities.
Highlights
Only as a scholar and as a teacher, Minwaajimo
Family Leadership Design Collaborative (FLDC) Special Issue Introduction though the legacy of Japanese American incarceration continues to cast a long shadow on the language and cultural practices of our increasingly diverse community, those experiences taught us lessons about gaman, our ability to “make something beautiful through your anger, with your anger, and neither erase it nor let it define you.”1 We learned about connections with other communities of color and Indigenous peoples on whose land we are simultaneously colonizers and colonized
My family and community taught me to draw strength and wisdom from those who came before us, to claim our political voice in resisting injustice, to see our lives and struggles as fundamentally interdependent, and to work to build a better world kodomo no tame ni – “for the sake of the children.”. These lessons from my own family and community infuse how I entered the process of co-developing the Family Leadership Design Collaborative (FLDC)
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I come to this work, seeking to learn are anchored in questions about how we to live the good life, a just life, a sustainable might become fully ourselves. As a fourth-generation Japanese Potowatomi, Odawa, Oneida, Lakota, American, such questions are shaped by my Mexican, Black and Iranian peoples. I am family's culture and history, indelibly a daughter, granddaughter, sister, and marked by our community's incarceration cousin. Some of these roles are through my by our government during World War II – blood relations, and some are made family.
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