K. Wayne Yang
K. Wayne Yang is a professor and scholar in Indigenous organizing and critical pedagogy. He is a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego and Provost of John Muir College.[1]
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.[2] He also holds a B.A. in Physics from Harvard University.[2]
Yang received the Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award in 2010.[3]
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 which is inspired by the Survival Programs of the Black Panther Party.[4]
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]
Books
Yang has coedited three books and written one under the avatar la paperson.
Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education: Mapping the Long View
Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education: Mapping the Long View, edited by Yang along with Linda Tuhiwai Smith and Eve Tuck, is a series of chapters that explore the relationship between decolonization and education. Each chapter is written by a different author, and present educational methods that are rooted in Indigenous principles.
Towards What Justice? Describing Diverse Dreams of Justice in Education
Towards What Justice? Describing Diverse Dreams of Justice in Education, which Yang coedited with Eve Tuck, features essays by various authors discussing different ideas of justice within colonialism. The book analyzes the ways in which settler colonialism and anti-Blackness permeate the educational system.
Youth Resistance Research and Theories of Change
Youth Resistance Research and Theories of Change, also coedited by Eve Tuck, explores new ways to understand and engage in youth resistance and challenges traditional conceptions of what “counts” as progress that conventional analyses of youth resistance deploy
A Third University Is Possible
A Third University Is Possible, written under the avatar la paperson, describes the university as an assemblage and posits the “scyborg” as one who, plugged into a machine such as the university, retools that machinery towards decolonizing purposes.
Selected publications
- Yang, K. Wayne. (2020) "Sustainability as Plantation Logic, Or, Who Plots an Architecture of Freedom?".[6] www.e-flux.com.
- Yang, K. Wayne Teshome, Tezeru; (2018). "Not Child but MeagerSexualization and Negation of Black Childhood".[7] Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 22 (3 (57)): 160–170. doi:10.1215/07990537-7249292. ISSN 0799-0537.
- Yang, K. Wayne Yang (2015). Welch, Edwina; Ruanto-Ramirez, Joseph; Magpusao, Nancy (eds.). "Deep Organizing: To Build the beloved community". Nexus: Complicating community & centering the self: 9–21.
- Tuck, Eve; Yang, K. Wayne (2014). "Unbecoming Claims: Pedagogies of Refusal in Qualitative Research".[8] Qualitative Inquiry. 20 (6): 811–818. doi:10.1177/1077800414530265. ISSN 1077-8004.
- Paperson, La (2014). "A ghetto land pedagogy: an antidote for settler environmentalism".[9] Environmental Education Research. 20 (1): 115–130. doi:10.1080/13504622.2013.865115. ISSN 1350-4622.
- Tuck, E., & Yang, K. (2013). R-words: Refusing research.[10] In D. Paris & M. T. Winn (Eds.), Humanizing research: Decolonizing qualitative inquiry with youth and communities. SAGE Publications.
- Eve, Tuck; Yang, K. Wayne (2012). "Decolonization is not a metaphor".[11] Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society. 1(1): 1–40.
- Paperson, La (2010). “The postcolonial ghetto: Seeing her shape and his hand”.[12] Berkeley Review of Education, 1(1).
- Yang, K. Wayne (2009). "Mathematics, critical literacy, and youth participatory action research".[13] New Directions for Youth Development. 2009 (123): 99–118. doi:10.1002/yd.317
- Yang, K Wayne. (2009). Discipline or Punish? Some Suggestions for School Policy and Teacher Practice[14]. Language Arts, 87(1), 49-61.
- Yang, K. Wayne (2007). "Organizing MySpace: Youth walkouts, pleasure, politics and new media".[15] Educational Foundations. vol. 21, no. 1-2: 9–28.
References
- "K. Wayne Yang: UCSD New Student Convocation Fall 2020". convocation.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
- "K. Wayne Yang | PPFP". ppfp.ucop.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
- "ARE-LA's teacher inquiry group presents K. Wayne Yang - Association of Raza Educators Los Angeles". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
- "Wayne Yang". ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
- "RESEARCH :: education research :: OISE Research at the University of Toronto". www.oise.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
- "Sustainability as Plantation Logic, Or, Who Plots an Architecture of Freedom?". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tuck and Yang, Eve and K. Wayne (2013). R-Words: Refuting Research. Sage Publications.
- Tuck, Eve; Yang, K. Wayne (2012). "Decolonization is not a metaphor" (PDF). Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society. 1: 1–40.
- Paperson, La (2010). "The Postcolonial Ghetto: Seeing Her Shape and His Hand" (PDF). Berkeley Review of Education. 1. doi:10.5070/B81110026.
- 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.
- Yang, K. Wayne (2009-09-01). "Discipline or Punish? Some Suggestions for School Policy and Teacher Practice". Language Arts. 87 (1): 49–61.
- Yang, K. Wayne (Winter–Spring 2007). "Organizing MySpace: Youth Walkouts, Pleasure, Politics, and New Media". Educational Foundations. 21: 9–28. ISSN 1047-8248.