Rehearsing Solidarity: Enclosures and Inspiration across Black and Latinx Youth Songwriters

Emery Petchauer Columbia University ; Tia Harvey Trinity Health Oakland Hospital ; Rolando Ybarra Trinity Health Oakland Hospital

Abstract

This article draws from a yearlong practitioner inquiry to explore solidarity and inspiration among Black and Latinx youth songwriters in a community-based music program. The inquiry builds upon scholarship and practice around solidarity across Black and Latinx youth through songwriting, performance, and multi-sensory practices. Theoretically, the study brings together a language of solidarity framework and the emergent, future-facing standpoint of the not-yet. Findings address the uneven access to racial knowledge between Black and Latinx, creative enclosures and how inspiration travels within and across these enclosures. Leveraging the not-yet, we discuss implications for embracing unevenness, non-linearity, and enclosures while theorizing a language of solidarity among Black and Latinx youth.

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Research in the Teaching of English
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2026-02-01
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10.58680/rte2026603279
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