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1 a Blackcrit Ethnography on the Co-Creation of Textual A BLACKCRIT ETHNOGRAPHY ON THE CO-CREATION OF TEXTUAL SANCTUARY AS MEANS TO UNDERSTANDING AND RESISTING ANTIBLACKNESS AT A U.S. URBAN HIGH SCHOOL By Justin Avery Coles A Dissertation Submitted to Michigan State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education—Doctor of Philosophy 2018 1 ABSTRACT A BLACKCRIT ETHNOGRAPHY ON THE CO-CREATION OF TEXTUAL SANCTUARY AS MEANS TO UNDERSTANDING AND RESISTING ANTIBLACKNESS AT A U.S. URBAN HIGH SCHOOL By Justin Avery Coles Like racism in U.S. society, antiblackness or the human races necessity for violence against Black people is an immutable fact. The idea that Blackness is inherently problematic in the public imaginary—needing to be marginalized or disposed of—directly frames how urban schools are organized for the education of Black children. This is a problem of public schooling for which my research aims to respond. The tendency to view schools as free of antiblackness (read violence free) undermines changes in schooling curriculum, climate, and policy that work toward equity for Black children. Instead, the prevailing belief that schools are free of antiblackness (or the view of not considering antiblackness at all) perpetuate antiblackness and the associated violence that disproportionately impacts Black children. The purpose of my literacy driven BlackCrit Ethnography, was to unearth what Black youth’s critical engagements with literacy reveal about antiblackness as it operationalizes as symbolic violence in their urban schooling and societal experiences. Specifically, I relied on the language and literacy practices Black youth embody as they navigate urban education in ways that pinpoint the criticality of Blackness and antiblackness in their lives. My study was guided by the following questions: (1) What understandings of antiblackness emerge through Black youth’s critical engagements with literacy? (2) How do Black youth’s understandings of antiblackness through critical engagements with literacy function as resistance to antiblackness? Data collection for my project included audio-visual recorded after-school sessions, literacy artifacts, observations, interviews, 2 dialogic journaling, and student academic and disciplinary data. The study took place during the 2016-2017 academic year with nine Black youth (six girls, three boys) at an urban high school in Philadelphia, PA. The Black youth informed me how they operate as texts that are deeply critical of antiblackness. In order to exist in an anti-Black nation-state, the youth demonstrated the ways they individually and collectively operate as critical textual sites or archives of Blackness, that when properly engaged, have the potential to be expressed in ways that oppose and lessen the material and psychic impacts of antiblackness. Moreover, the space we cultivated that was Black-centric, proved to be crucial for affirming and cultivating the development of these textualities. Despite the precarity of Black life resulting from the many ways antiblackness is sustained in U.S. social institutions such as public schools, this research establishes the brilliance of Black youth to center their joy as a radical act of resistance to the symbolic violence of antiblackness. They do this through strategic, purposeful engagements with literacy. 3 Copyright by JUSTIN AVERY COLES 2018 4 There are nights when I cry for Latasha Harlins And other Black youth long gone, buried In the soil their ancestors knew/know all too well And yet, I have never met Latasha, Tamir, etc. I have met them only in my dreams Dreams that will never come true, here Dreams that perhaps never should, because they are free where(ever) they are I simply dream of freedom. In dedication to the Black children who are free and those who dare to dream of and fight for freedom. v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I begin by acknowledging my Blackness and the global Black community from which I come. Being Black is very important to me, as it lies at the core of who I am and it serves as a catalyst for the work that I have done in my dissertation and the work that I will continue to do throughout my career. Black lives do matter—they always have and they always will. I am thankful for my parents, Debra Ann Coles and Jeffrey Alvin Coles, Sr. for everything imaginable. I particularly thank them for cultivating my passion for literacy and community. I am thankful for my brother, Jeffrey Alvin Coles, Jr. and my sister-in-law, Kimberly Lynn Coles for all of their support throughout my PhD journey. I love you Gia Lynn Coles. I want to thank Dr. Terry Flennaugh for guiding me through my entire PhD journey from the moment of my acceptance to Michigan State University. It is amazing to think back to our very early conversations in 2013 regarding my potential research and to see how it has grown. I thank Dr. Chezare Warren, his appointment to the faculty of Michigan State University during my second year allowed me to create the best advisor duo a student could imagine. From the moment I began working with Dr. Warren he has inspired me in unthinkable ways, while also getting me to see the value of my work, to believe in my work. I thank Dr. Flennaugh and Dr. Warren, for being such dynamic Black men who consistently demonstrated to me that I, like countless other Black folks, am beyond deserving to be in these academic spaces. I am thankful for the other dynamic Black men who have made up the rest of my dissertation committee: Drs. Django Paris, Vaughn Watson, and Michael Dumas. I thank Dr. Paris for consistently investing in my academic development and directly inspiring the ways my work seeks to be more vi humanizing. I thank Dr. Watson for inspiring me with his youth-centered research, his willingness to mentor me beyond my dissertation, and overall serving as an unwavering pillar of support. I thank Dr. Dumas for his necessary scholarship on antiblackness in education, which greatly inspired my dissertation work. While not a member of my dissertation committee, I am thankful for Dr. Dorinda Carter Andrews, who has mentored me and provided opportunities for me throughout my entire PhD process. In addition, I appreciate Drs. Patricia Edwards and Terah Venzant Chambers, two other Black women in MSU’s College of Education who have been nothing but supportive. Four Black women who were graduate students with me at MSU and are now faculty members have played a very special role in my development as well: Drs. Sakeena Everett, Lateefah Id-Deen, Tonisha B. Lane, and Tuesda Roberts. I am also indebted to Dr. Marini Lee, director of the Summer High School Scholars Program in the College of Education. Dr. Lee invited me to teach writing to the summer scholars at the end of my first year at MSU and has invited me to return each summer after my first year. I thank Dr. Lee for her interest and confidence in my scholarship and teaching. I am also thankful for Drs. Tonya Bartell, Niral Shah, Corey Drake, and Angela Calabrese Barton at Michigan State University. I am thankful for all of the doctoral students who I had the chance to be in community with at Michigan State University. A special shout out goes to the Black Graduate Student Association (BGSA) and the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP). I particularly want to thank my dear friends Amieris Lavender and Dr. Darrius Stanley. I am also thankful to “The Office” crew: Amber Johnson, Dr. Christopher Seals, Dr. Bernadette Castillo, Donald Barringer, and Dr. Sakeena Everret. Also a special shout out goes to Dr. Cassie Brownell, Davena Jackson, Kayon Hall, Tashal Brown, and Darius Johnson. vii Dr. Antar Tichavakunda (graduate of USC), Dr. DeMarcus Jenkins (graduate of UCLA), and I started a collective to support each other during our final year of dissertating and to uplift each other throughout the job application process. This community has deeply contributed to my ability to finish my PhD. I am beyond thankful for these two men who are my fraternity brothers, colleagues, and most importantly my friends. I am also thankful for the support and fellowship of my dear friend Dr. Mauriell Amechi who began this journey with me years ago, when we both participated in SROP at The Ohio State University. I also cannot forget my wonderful friends and colleagues I met in Philadelphia during the two years I spent collecting data and writing: Dr. Nichole Garcia, Dr. Nathan Castillo, Michael Ishimoto, and Sy Stokes. I would like to thank Dr. Shaun Harper for his creation of the Graduate Prep Academy, that was initially hosted at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Harper’s mentorship since my undergraduate years and the community he has cultivated through Grad Prep has had an immeasurable impact on my life. I would like to thank the National Council of Teachers of English Research Foundation’s Cultivating New Voices (CNV) Among Scholars of Color Fellowship Program. I love my 2016- 2018 CNV cohort! I am thankful for the junior and senior scholars who have mentored and provided opportunities to me such as Drs. Valerie Kinloch, Marcelle Haddix, April Baker-Bell, David Kirkland, Lamar Johnson, Renne Moreno, Susi Long, Leigh Patel, Korina Jocson, and so many more. I especially want to thank Dr. Yolanda Sealy-Ruiz from Columbia University, Teachers College who has been a crucial figure in my PhD journey. Dr. Sealy-Ruiz served as my CNV mentor and I quickly realized that her mentorship was way too humanizing to be restricted to a single program. She became a mentor, a friend, a confidant, and an embodiment of the love and humanity academic spaces so desperately need.
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