Abstract
While the Global North’s academic culture is romanced by generalizability, testimonio offers an enticing way to incorporate diverse knowledge sources into the curricular cannon. Testimonio offers a radical, critical, spiritual humanizing pedagogy for ethnic-racial socialization (Menchú, Citation1983). In this paper, I conduct a semi-structured interview with tía, my aunt, a Haitian native, who raised me and has worked for 30 years in special education and English language instruction in New York City and Maryland. She also served as a Sunday school teacher in our Haitian church. Her experience as a secular and spiritual educator makes her a unique voice to speak to how her experiences and identity informed her polyrhythmic pedagogies.
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1 South African Saying meaning "I am because we are."
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Valencia Clement
Valencia Clement is a Haitian American poet from Queens, NY. She is a doctoral student at Arizona State University studying Education Policy and Evaluation. Her research interests include cultural studies, womanism, blues methodology and arts-based methodology.