A.C.T.O.R (A Continuing Talk on Race) 10.7.2018- BLM and Latinx/Afro-Latinx inclusion in Education
Date and Time
Oct 7, 2018 5:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Oct 7, 2018 5:00 pm
14th & V
The A.C.T.O.R. (A Continuing Talk on Race) open discussion series is hosted by Busboys and Poets as a community service. It provides the opportunity for people to come together and speak openly and honestly about issues of race. The intent is that each person walks away from the discussion feeling something: challenged, educated, uncomfortable, enlightened, refreshed, reassured and hopefully inspired and moved to action! Each month there is a new topic for discussion.
This month's topic:Â BLM and Latinx/Afro-Latinx inclusion in Education
Radical Inclusion of Topics like Black Lives Matter and Afro/Latinx diaspora in educational curricula is becoming more and more paramount in today's political and educational climates. Our guests will be Denisha Jones of Black Lives Matter At Schools Initiative and Nancy Raquel Mirabal the Director of the US Latina/o Studies Program at the University of Maryland and Author.
About:
Nancy Mirabel is Associate Professor of American Studies and Director of the U.S. Latina/o Studies (USLT) program at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Mirabal earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and has published widely in the fields of Afro-diasporic, gentrification, and spatial studies. She is the author of Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957 (NYU Press, 2017) and is co-editor with Deborah Vargas and Larry LaFountain Stokes, of Keywords in Latina/o Studies (NYU Press, 2018). Her next project examines the politics of archival spaces, dissonant discourses, and spatial inquiry.
She is a recipient of the Scholar in Residence Fellowship at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; The University Chancellor Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Ethnic Studies; the International Migration Postdoctoral Fellowship, Social Science Research Council (SSRC); and served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians (OAH).
Denisha Jones is an Assistant Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Trinity Washington University in Washington, DC. She is a former early childhood teacher and preschool director. She received her Ph.D. from Indiana University in 2013. She has been active in the fight to stop the corporate takeover of public education since 2011. She is a board member for the Badass Teachers Association, Inc., United Opt Out National, and Defending the Early Years. Her research interests include teachers and public policy, the effects of school reform mandates on low-income children, preparing culturally competent teachers, and youth civic engagement. In 2015 she was the recipient of the Bammy Award for College Professor of the Year from the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences.Â
About #BlackLivesMatter Week of Action in Schools Nationwide
Educators in cities across the country, including Seattle, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Boston, D.C., Baltimore, and many more organized a national Black Lives Matter Week of Action in our Schools the week of February 5-10, 2018. The movement in schools grew out of an action in Seattle in 2016.
During Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools, thousands of educators across the country taught lessons about structural racism, intersectional Black identities, and Black history. There were events for educators, students, stakeholders, and community members to actively engage in the movement. The lessons and dialogues that took place that week were intended to continue throughout the year.
There are three key demands issued by the Black Lives Matter at School national movement: End Zero Tolerance, and Implement Restorative Justice; Hire More Black Teachers in our Schools; and Black History/Ethnic Studies Mandated K-12.
Free and open to all.Â
A.C.T.O.R. is held on the first Sunday of every month at Busboys and Poets 14th & V from 5:00 PM-7:00 pm.
