K. Wayne Yang

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K. Wayne Yang is a professor and scholar of community organizing, critical pedagogy, and Indigenous and decolonizing studies. He is a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego and Provost of John Muir College. [1] He writes about decolonization and everyday epic organizing, often with his frequent collaborator, Eve Tuck. Currently, they are convening The Land Relationships Super Collective, editing the book series, Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education, and editing the journal, Critical Ethnic Studies. He is interested in the complex role of cities in global affairs: cities as sites of settler colonialism, as stages for empire, as places of resettlement and gentrification, and as always-already on Indigenous lands. [2]

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Education and awards

Wayne Yang graduated with his M.A. in Education from University of California, Berkeley, and received his Ph.D. in Education from University of California, Berkeley. [3] He also holds a B.A. in Physics from Harvard University. [3]

Yang received the Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award in 2010. [4]

Professional activities

Before his academic career, he was a public school teacher in Oakland, California for 15 years. During this time, he co-founded the Avenues Project, a non-profit youth development organization, as well as East Oakland Community High School, which were inspired by the Survival Programs of the Black Panther Party. [2]

In partnership with Eve Tuck, Yang is the co-founder of the Land Relationship Super Collective. The Land Relationship Super Collective is a grassroots collective of university-based academics that aid decolonization through land reclamation. [5]

At the University of California, San Diego, he co-founded the Indigenous Futures Institute (IFI) and Black Like Water. IFI is an Indigenous-led institute that aims to counter the legacy of unethical scientific practice and Indigenous peoples. IFI channels a community-based participatory model to create community-driven solutions to climate crisis, global pandemics, and the continued denial of Indigenous sovereignty. [6] Black Like Water is a place-based approach to Black belonging in Matkulaxuuy, Kumeyaay territory (a.k.a La Jolla, San Diego) which identifies, amplifies, and analyzes narratives and practices that highlight the significance of honoring Black relationships to the natural world. The signature program of Black Like Water is Black Surf Week, which has taken place annually since 2019. [7]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ "K. Wayne Yang: UCSD New Student Convocation Fall 2020". convocation.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  2. 1 2 "Wayne Yang". ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  3. 1 2 "K. Wayne Yang | PPFP". ppfp.ucop.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  4. ↑ "ARE-LA's teacher inquiry group presents K. Wayne Yang - Association of Raza Educators Los Angeles". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  5. ↑ "RESEARCH :: education research :: OISE Research at the University of Toronto". www.oise.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  6. ↑ Mission, Indigenous Futures Institute. https://ifi.ucsd.edu/our-mission/Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  7. ↑ What is Black Like Water? https://www.blacklikewater.com/about Retrieved July 12, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Sustainability as Plantation Logic, Or, Who Plots an Architecture of Freedom?". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  9. ↑ Teshome, Tezeru; Yang, K. Wayne (2018-11-30). "Not Child but Meager: Sexualization and Negation of Black Childhood" . Small Axe. 22 (3): 160–170. doi:10.1215/07990537-7249292. ISSN   1534-6714. S2CID   149534656.
  10. ↑ Tuck, Eve; Yang, K. Wayne (2014-07-01). "Unbecoming Claims: Pedagogies of Refusal in Qualitative Research" . Qualitative Inquiry. 20 (6): 811–818. doi:10.1177/1077800414530265. ISSN   1077-8004. S2CID   144896422.
  11. ↑ Paperson, La (2014-01-02). "A ghetto land pedagogy: an antidote for settler environmentalism" . Environmental Education Research. 20 (1): 115–130. doi:10.1080/13504622.2013.865115. ISSN   1350-4622. S2CID   145105634.
  12. ↑ Tuck and Yang, Eve and K. Wayne (2013). R-Words: Refuting Research. Sage Publications.
  13. ↑ Tuck, Eve; Yang, K. Wayne (2012). "Decolonization is not a metaphor" (PDF). Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society. 1: 1–40.
  14. ↑ Paperson, La (2010). "The Postcolonial Ghetto: Seeing Her Shape and His Hand" (PDF). Berkeley Review of Education. 1. doi: 10.5070/B81110026 .
  15. ↑ Yang, K. Wayne (2009). "Mathematics, critical literacy, and youth participatory action research". New Directions for Youth Development. 2009 (123): 99–118, 14. doi:10.1002/yd.317. ISSN   1537-5781. PMID   19830806.
  16. ↑ Yang, K. Wayne (2009-09-01). "Discipline or Punish? Some Suggestions for School Policy and Teacher Practice" . Language Arts. 87 (1): 49–61. doi:10.58680/la20097976.
  17. ↑ Yang, K. Wayne (Winter–Spring 2007). "Organizing MySpace: Youth Walkouts, Pleasure, Politics, and New Media". Educational Foundations. 21: 9–28. ISSN   1047-8248.


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