Displacement

This article examines Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) meeting transcripts to show that relationships between Colorado State University and the city of Denver are changing in racialized ways, as normative institutions remove people from land to fulfill economic ambitions, exemplifying theories about the spatialization of race and the racialization of space.

This article unveils experiences of displacement across two different geographic contexts among high school youth. The authors reveal the tensions embedded in the choice to write together across an intergenerational collective, exploring what it means to write as youth and as adults afraid to write for the youth.

This article speaks against the deficit stories and colonizing practices that have affected Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans pre- and post-Hurricane María. The authors' collaborative project in Florida humanizes the ongoing experiences of multiple displacements resulting from U.S. colonialism, racism, white supremacy ideologies, and unnatural disasters.

This special issue of The Assembly contains a collection of scholarly articles focused on the phenomena of place and displacement as they occur in and near public education. These seven articles contribute to the growing field of community-based education research by instigating thought, discourse, and action that deepens the relationships between community members and researchers in the face of social, political, and economic disruption.