Community Within: Black Child Play as Response & Protest

This informative and interactive workshop highlights the various ways that Black children, particularly Black children living in poverty, play. The workshop works with participants through dialogue, physical play, multimedia components, and critical inquiry to analyze the ages and stages of play necessary for holistic child development, as well as the racialized and classed ways in which play is deprived as Black children age and grow. Finally, we consider the ways that Black children use play to respond to and protest against institutionalized racism.