October 25th, 2023, 11:00 pm - October 27th, 2023, 10:59 pm CDT
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Host: Critical Race Studies in Education Association (CRSEA)
The 2023 Critical Race Studies in Education Association (CRSEA) Conference theme is Sankofa, which is a Ghanaian principle that means “to go back and get it.” It translates to san – to return, ko – to go, fa – to get/seek and represents the importance of learning from the past to improve the future. It was chosen as this year’s theme to encourage us to approach our use of Critical Race Theory in a similar way – to return to the roots of CRT in order to improve the present and future. The banning of CRT and conversations about racial inequities in educational spaces reaffirms the imminent necessity of our work. It also highlights the importance of speaking truth to power, which we do by focusing on what CRT is, instead of what it is not. This is achieved by using the principles set forth by the founders of CRT to ground our analyses of systemic racism and other systems of oppression that still negatively impact marginalized communities both domestically and abroad.