Afrikan-Centered & Grassroots-Movement Based Participatory Action Research (PAR) Training

AAfrikan-Centered PAR is a praxis into Afrikan culture, grassroots community organizing and Black Liberation movement building that is rooted in Pan-Afrikan lineage, institutional memory and Afrikan development of civilization. Grounding Questions: 1: In the past, how have Afrikan/Black communities honored cultural systems of knowledge that supported civilization & human development? 2) How strong can the Afrikan community be when Black people honor and revive ancestral tradition, cultural ways of knowing across generations centering their mothers-mothers’ consciousness? 3) What methods, practices and world-views Afrikan/Black people can employ to hold not-for-profit, academic scholarship, and white supremacist institutions accountable for the trauma caused from rewriting of her/history and the stolen legacy of Black people? 4) What are Afrikan principles/world-views to critically analyze as a method of healing that directly contributes to Black peoples’and all oppressed peoples’liberation?

This training covers three larger areas of praxis:

• PAR Epistemology - From Afrikan World-View – Why do we know what we know

• PAR EXAMPLES - METHODS & METHODOLOGY and DATA COLLECTIONS & DATA ANALYSIS –

• PAR as an Embodiment of Liberation and Healing –

Upon completion of this praxis, participants will be able to:

• Explain the contextual and historical analysis of developing an Afrikan Centered PAR Framework

• Have the skills to develop a small PAR project with family and community

• Critique mainstream research and professional institutions that attack and/or erase community systems of knowledge

  
  “How can ‘Action’ be theorized and frontloaded in PAR? How can research support grassroot community organizing, and movement building for liberation? How can PAR subvert traditional power relationships within research? How can marginalized communities re-claim knowledge-making for their own communities?” – H.O.L.L.A!