[Black] Teachers Resisting Damaged-Centered Research: Community Listening Exchanges as a Reciprocal Research Tool in a Gentrifying City

Thais Council, Shaeroya Earls, Shakale George and Rebecca Graham
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Thais Council: College of Education, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
Shaeroya Earls: College of Education and Human Development, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
Shakale George: College of Education and Human Development, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
Rebecca Graham: College of Education and Human Development, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA

Social Sciences, 2022, vol. 11, issue 2, 1-21

Abstract: Gentrification impacts many cities across the nation. Affordable housing task forces and legislation meant to address housing inequities are becoming more common, yet the authentic experiences of those affected are often unacknowledged. Absent from the discussion of gentrification are the voices of those deeply impacted, some who are at the center of the work to maintain communities: Black teachers, Black students, and Black families. In many school districts, teachers do not have the opportunity to address the systemic issues that impact their students and communities. Still, it is impossible to ignore the ways societal injustice seeps into the classroom. This article discusses our work as a teacher participatory action research collective exploring the intersection of housing and educational displacement in a rapidly gentrifying community in Southwest Atlanta, Georgia. We highlight our roles as community-centered educators and detail how we intentionally and thoughtfully worked to create a reciprocal space to engage communities in Community Listening Exchanges. We present Community Listening Exchanges as a justice-centered innovation to community-engaged research and scholarship. Our critical and collaborative approach to generating and analyzing data allowed us to uncover how housing and educational displacement relies on deficit narratives to justify the removal of marginalized people. We offer CLEs as a reciprocal research tool that deviates from traditional qualitative research and resists anti-Black, damage-centered narratives.

Keywords: community listening exchanges; resistance; disrupting damage-centered narratives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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