Samuel Finesurrey
Biographic Data
| ID | 230536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Finesurrey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Finesurrey |
| SIGNATURE | FINESURREY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-8001-8334 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Truth-Telling, Healing, and Resistance: High Schoolers from Immigrant Households Contest Rising Xenophobia Through Participatory Oral History
This 4-year longitudinal Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) study employed over 300 peer-to-peer oral history interviews conducted by 112 mostly Dominican American 10th graders in Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx to examine how conjunctural crises—immigration enforcement, pandemic, and digital toxicity—impact youth from immigrant households. Building on YPAR scholarship and immigration studies, this curriculum-embedded project position…
Encuentros: Decolonizing the Academy and Mobilizing for Justice
In this article, we try to capture a moment when we were relatively steady in our belief that as persons working in/through the academy, we are accountable to the temblores, to take up the project of decolonizing the curriculum, democratizing our pedagogy, and sharing the very space we occupy with those most affected by current assaults on immigrants and people of color in the United States. We still believe this, perhaps even more from our homes…
The Light That Shineth in the Darkness: Anglo-American Rural Missionaries and the Cuban Revolution
Though rural Protestant missionaries stationed in Cuba routinely reproduced Anglo-American epistemologies and values, often in the service of US corporations, they also worked alongside their parishioners to challenge state and economic violence, as well as break the cyclical nature of Cuban poverty. Shared struggle with Cubans against Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship proved transformative for many rural missionaries who, in the late 1950s, devel…
People Are Demanding Justice”: Pandemics, Protests, and Remote Learning Through the Eyes of Immigrant Youth of Color
This paper examines a youth oral history project conducted by/with/for immigrant youth of color and educators. Designed as a longitudinal five year project of critical participatory action research and youth oral histories, we sought initially to document generational experiences of schooling inequity, aggressive policing, housing precarity and immigration struggles. As a research collective we then confronted and chose to interrogate how COVID19…
People Are Demanding Justice”: Pandemics, Protests, and Remote Learning Through the Eyes of Immigrant Youth of Color
This paper examines a youth oral history project conducted by/with/for immigrant youth of color and educators. Designed as a longitudinal five year project of critical participatory action research and youth oral histories, we sought initially to document generational experiences of schooling inequity, aggressive policing, housing precarity and immigration struggles. As a research collective we then confronted and chose to interrogate how COVID19…
People Are Demanding Justice”: Pandemics, Protests, and Remote Learning Through the Eyes of Immigrant Youth of Color
This paper examines a youth oral history project conducted by/with/for immigrant youth of color and educators. Designed as a longitudinal five year project of critical participatory action research and youth oral histories, we sought initially to document generational experiences of schooling inequity, aggressive policing, housing precarity and immigration struggles. As a research collective we then confronted and chose to interrogate how COVID19…
The Light That Shineth in the Darkness: Anglo-American Rural Missionaries and the Cuban Revolution
Though rural Protestant missionaries stationed in Cuba routinely reproduced Anglo-American epistemologies and values, often in the service of US corporations, they also worked alongside their parishioners to challenge state and economic violence, as well as break the cyclical nature of Cuban poverty. Shared struggle with Cubans against Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship proved transformative for many rural missionaries who, in the late 1950s, devel…
Encuentros: Decolonizing the Academy and Mobilizing for Justice
In this article, we try to capture a moment when we were relatively steady in our belief that as persons working in/through the academy, we are accountable to the temblores, to take up the project of decolonizing the curriculum, democratizing our pedagogy, and sharing the very space we occupy with those most affected by current assaults on immigrants and people of color in the United States. We still believe this, perhaps even more from our homes…
Truth-Telling, Healing, and Resistance: High Schoolers from Immigrant Households Contest Rising Xenophobia Through Participatory Oral History
This 4-year longitudinal Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) study employed over 300 peer-to-peer oral history interviews conducted by 112 mostly Dominican American 10th graders in Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx to examine how conjunctural crises—immigration enforcement, pandemic, and digital toxicity—impact youth from immigrant households. Building on YPAR scholarship and immigration studies, this curriculum-embedded project position…
Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Solidarity (3 works) · Citizen journalism (2 works) · Immigration (2 works) · Participatory action research (2 works) · Politics (2 works)