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Centering Black Childhoods

Date & Time

Wednesday, March 09, 2022, 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

Category

Forum

Location

Zoom Forum

Contact

Lauren Silver

Information

Sponsored by the Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers-Camden Funded by IDEA Camden Innovation Grant

Centering Black Childhoods

This exchange uplifts and centers scholarship and activism with Black children. We value the contributions Black children make to how we know and theorize our everyday worlds. We center Black children’s ways of knowing, playing, dreaming, and loving, in order to create new, more just futures in the present. This Speakers’ Series involves translating and lifting Black children’s complex realities and ways of knowing to wider consciousness, while  simultaneously working with youth and communities to sculpt critical strategies for freedom and liberation (on local and global levels).

We engage in this Speakers’ Series hand-in-hand with activists, artists, practitioners, and young people who work to alleviate contexts that harm Black children while envisioning and creating a caring community. We envision each of these gatherings as building community and launching ongoing working groups in racial justice scholarship and praxis.

View the event flyer.