Please join us for the 11th Annual Kurth-Schai Education and Advocacy Lecture presented by the Educational Studies Department.

Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang will share insights learned from a recent initiative to support early- and mid-career scholars in thinking and writing about how they theorize race and racism in their research with youth. In the William T. Grant Foundation Writing Fellows Initiative, led by Tuck and Yang, scholars came together to tell the stories of how they came to understand and write about race differently than how they were initially taught in graduate school. Often scholars need to seek out other ways to learn to theorize race and racism, away from the traditions of their disciplines. By emphasizing a storytelling approach, Tuck and Yang will share how this initiative might inspire other efforts to do meaningful and transformational research on racism with youth.

About the Lecturers

Eve Tuck is an award-winning Indigenous (Unangax̂) scholar who is internationally regarded for her contributions to educational research and Indigenous studies. She has worked closely with diverse urban and rural communities to conduct research that improves education and social policy, particularly for disadvantaged and marginalized youth. Tuck held a prestigious Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2011-2012) to conduct research on Indigenous research ethics. She is a Professor of Indigenous Studies and James Weldon Johnson Professor at Steinhardt, in the Department of Applied Statistics, Social Sciences and Humanities, and the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, at New York University. She is the founding director of the new Provostial Center for Indigenous Studies at NYU.

K. Wayne Yang’s work transgresses the line between scholarship and community, as evidenced by his involvement in urban education and community organizing. Before his academic career, he was a public school teacher in Ohlone territory, now called Oakland, California, where he co-founded the Avenues Project, a youth development non-profit organization, as well as East Oakland Community High School, which were inspired by the Survival Programs of the Black Panther Party. An accomplished educator, Dr. Yang has taught high school in Oakland, California for over 15 years and is a recipient of the Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award. He is a scholar of community organizing, critical pedagogy, and Indigenous and decolonizing studies, and a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego, and Provost of John Muir College. He writes about decolonization and everyday epic organizing.

Currently, Tuck and Yang are convening The Land Relationships Super Collective, editing the book series, Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education, and editing the journal, Critical Ethnic Studies.

Additional Resources

Webinar:

A new 2-volume Set & Webinar Series Coming From the William T Grant Foundation  

Books:

Books by Eve Tuck (With some edited by K. Wayne Yang) 

K. Wayne Yang’s book (under a pen name) – A Third University is Possible 

Articles & Chapters:

Decolonization is not a Metaphor

R Words: Refusing Research

Research Project:

Eve Tuck’s Research Project