I. Go-Around

1. Remind us of your name & program.  Feel free to share any announcements that you might have (conferences, news items, etc)
2. Give us the name of the journal and/or article you looked at for today... and 1-2 sentences to describe it.  (Last week's timeline and the list of articles and journals we collected will be on the website within the next week).

II. Name Game (we are about 1/2way there)
Thank you Adashima, Brittany, Eric, Jesse, Hillary, Kahdeidra, Shamari

III. Presentation Sign-Up
Reminder of Your Directions: It is pretty customary in graduate classes for someone to start the class with an introduction or interpretation of the text for that week’s class discussion.  We will do something similar.  You have 10-15 minutes to talk with the class about any one text for that week.  Here are your directions: 1) point to a very specific place in the text and talk us through it; 2) explain and/or show us how that place/idea in the text relates to a very specific inquiry/research project in your life RIGHT NOW involving communities and/or youth.   This does not need to involve a formal, academic process like dissertation data collection; you can focus on a burning question IRL that your text illuminates for you in some way. Let’s stop framing research as a product owned and consumed only by the academy.


IV. Open Discussion on "“Racialized Discourses and Ethnic Epistemologies” by Gloria Ladson-Billings (GLB).   Why 122 citations/references?  20 of these references/citations are on CRT alone--- why? She is the founder of CRT in education so why does she still have to back herself up like this? Where, when, and how does she pre-emptively counter her haters? How do we read and WRITE like GLB?  What is our take-away?

V. Our First Presenters: ADASHIMA and ERIC

VI.  Small Groups (if time): Final connections between your journal issue, your memoir, & last week's book, When They Call You A Terrorist