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Study: East Palo Alto

About



Study: East Palo Alto is a research project exploring the history of radical Black education initiatives in my hometown of East Palo Alto. Focusing on the Nairobi schools, this critical inquiry seeks not to document and share historical flashpoints as spectacle or romanticized history, but rather to identify the methods, pedagogies, and organizing strategies that may be urgently instrumental now and well into the future.

This public-facing initiative is organized into study cycles. Study cycles are defined periods of inquiry organized around a specific research question. Alongside the close reading of historical materials, Study: East Palo Alto takes Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s assertion in The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (2013) that “study is what you do with other people.” As such, each study cycle includes conversations with community members, public events, and other methods yet to be determined.

Study: East Palo Alto asks what hyperlocal radical Black educational movements can teach power, knowledge production, and community empowerment.



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Study: East Palo Alto is a featured [Research Platform] project on KJR Studios/Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s Gather & Disperse platform. These platforms are guided by specific research questions pursued through deep reading, community gatherings, and publishing across several years.


Gather & Disperse (G & D) is an ecosystem for Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s research and archival work. G & D includes special collections of “found” Black vernacular photographs and Black printed matter; research platforms on radical Black educational institutions and Black spiritual movements; infodumps on niche histories such as Eldridge Cleaver’s fashion line and the escape of Penelope the Platypus; and viewfinders that closely read shapes, textures, animals, and typography that we may typically overlook.
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