Anti-racist Research Practice-Partnerships in Education

These materials stem from an anti-racist RPP called
the Justice Now[1]
alliance aimed at dismantling the STPP. Our research collaborative was a
networked, intergenerational and community-engaged RPP that united researchers
from two Midwestern research universities, a partnering civil rights
organization, and community resident advisors to coordinate the RPP. In turn,
our partnership worked to convene and support four predominantly African
American, community-based action research teams composed of additional
university, youth, and community practitioner researchers who were also
interested in combating the STPP.<b> </b>Through
analysis of our qualitative study of the RPP’s first year, we
describe our prefiguring and implementation process and pinpoint how it yielded
opportunities, challenges, tensions, and benefits in advancing anti-racist
action research. <br><br>We aimed to “offer a context-rich, data-based narrative” that relied on a systematic self-study approach. Much of our qualitative data sources include records and notes involving many other people (including youth researchers), organizations, and interactions relevant to our community-engaged research work. As such, even with heavy redaction, it would be impossible to adequately de-identify these data sources. In line with our professional obligations, we will not share data that makes it possible to identify specific individuals beyond members of the authorship team.<br>We are able to share key, process-oriented data and analysis documents regarding our research practice-partnership planning and “prefiguration.” These documents can help other researchers conduct anti-racist research practice-partnership work in their own contexts/communities, including:Artifacts, including our RPP request for proposal and scoring rubric, which we discussed extensively in our manuscript.

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[1]
All proper names are pseudonyms.