{"data":{"ID":1604,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1791164391,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Making Our Praxis Multimodal: A Living Archive of Black Philadelphia","Handle":"making_our_praxis_multimodal--a_living_archive_of_black_philadelphia","ShortDescription":"Teachers, youth, university researchers, and a museum partner explored how Black Philadelphian histories go unrecognized in schools and museums. Grounded in Black feminisms and participatory research, we center Black youth in connecting past, present, and future through a living archive and \u201cpraxhibition\u201d that makes our collective praxis and Black Philadelphia histories visible.","Description":"Teachers, youth, university researchers, and a museum partner in this research-practice partnership, convened by a U.S. writing project site, explored tensions around how Black histories are told in and about Philadelphia, often going unrecognized in our schools and museums. We challenge inequitable racial narratives by centering Black youth as they draw links between past, present, and future and become researchers and storytellers of Black Philadelphian histories.\r\nGrounded in Black feminisms and using practitioner research and participatory design-based methods, we advanced the notion of a living archive, which brings together archival and artistic literacies to generate, preserve, and share histories. We make this work visible through a \u201cpraxhibition\u201d (Rosser, 2026)\u2014an experience that brings praxis, theory and practice, to life through exhibition.\r\nDuring this conversation, participants will experience pieces of our living archive through music, storytelling, poetry, photographs, interviews, and other artifacts created through teacher and youth inquiry. Together, we will consider: What happens when young people and teachers become researchers of the Black histories their schools and communities have overlooked? Whose histories remain hidden in our own communities? And how might we create opportunities for young people to research, (re)story, preserve, and share them?\r\nParticipants will leave having considered possibilities for creating living archives in their own classrooms, schools, and communities","Link":["https:\/\/livingarchive.philwp.org"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Participants will experience our \u201cpraxibition\u201d (Author 1, 2026), which blends music, storytelling, poetry, photography, interviews, essays, and other modalities to make visible the praxis and co-constructed knowledge of our community.\r\nWe will host a listening party featuring selections from our multimodal Living Archive album that tell the story of our project, including how we worked in collaborative inquiry; how learning about U.S. history influenced teaching practices and advanced youth literacies; and the socio-historical narratives that emerged as youth and teachers engaged with archival documents. Participants will also hear tracks featuring the lines of inquiry of 10 teacher and youth researcher teams, as well as the perspectives of our museum and community partners.\r\nThroughout the listening party, we will pause for conversation, inviting participants to respond to what they hear, ask questions, make connections, and engage directly with teacher-researchers about the possibilities and tensions of this work.\r\nAfter listening, participants will be invited to add to the Living Archive and consider what histories, people, places, or stories need to be remembered in their own communities. Together, we will consider how living archives and praxibitions might transcend the boundaries of literacy research and advance teaching, learning, and inquiry in participants\u2019 own contexts.","Presenter":["Barrett Rosser","Kyra Williams","Njemele Anderson","Antoine Stroman","Jenee Lee","Denzel Murdaugh"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Morgan State University","Philadelphia Writing Project (PhilWP)"],"PresenterEmail":["barrett.rosser@morgan.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":null,"ScheduleLocationID":null,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":14}}