Yasser Payne
Biography
Yasser Payne has organized a street ethnographic research program centered on exploring notions of resilience and resiliency with The Streets of Black and Brown America using an unconventional methodological framework entitled: Street Participatory Action Research (Street PAR)the process of involving street identified Black populations on the actual research team. Street PAR projects can take on many forms, but at the very least, they take on the following three features: (1) research orientation; (2) intervention for Street PAR members; and (3) a vehicle for action and activism in local communities. Dr. Paynes specialized courses focus on the lived or ethnographic experiences of street- identified Black and Brown populations.