Edited by:
Boni Wozolek, PhD
Contributors:
Sherick Hughes, Ngozi Williams, Roland W. Mitchell, Kirsten T. Edwards, Yolanda Sealy-Ruiz, Marcelle Haddix, Cluny Lavache, Walter S. Gershon, David O. Stovall, Reagan P. Mitchell, Denise Taliaferro-Baszile. Afterward by Lester Spence
Awards
Recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Book Award from Division B (Curriculum Studies) of the American Educational Research Association.
Abstract
Black Lives Matter in US Schools critically examines the relationship between schooling and sociocultural abolitionist movements like #BlackLivesMatter. Aligning with a long history of education scholars who have insisted on the enmeshed nature of schools and society, the book addresses the role of various forms of curricula that perpetuate anti-Blackness while simultaneously shaping Black ways of being, knowing, and doing. While its focus tends toward issues of normalized violence, Black Lives Matter in US Schools is equally concerned with possibilities for justice stemming from curricular change and affects like hope and love that are central to radical acts of resistance to oppression. Themes range from critical literacies to IQ tests, from Afro-surrealism to historiography, as the book strategically tacks between traditional forms of qualitative and quantitative research and more personal narratives. Black Lives Matter in US Schools speaks powerfully against the continued onslaught of inequities in schools and their communities, working to create space for forms of learning that are responsible to and for Black lives.
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Cover Art:
Artist: D’nae Chevelle Harrison
Title: Patterns for New Horizons
Artist Contact: www.instagram.com/redbakedcookies
Reviews:
“One of the chief questions Wozolek and her co-conspirators seek to ask is: how might we turn curriculum studies to consider the lives of the students most often at the wrong end of every educational statistic we collect? And then, how might we turn curriculum studies to the more radical project of giving those students (and their comrades) the tools they (we) need to actually create a world in which their lives not only matter but also determine the fate of everyone else on the planet?” — from the Afterword by Lester K. Spence
“This is a critically important volume that emphatically affirms BLACK LIVES MATTER! Many of the contributors are sought-after leaders in their fields and the mix of approaches coalesces into a highly readable book. The varying lines of flight on display center black lives in ways that are scholarly rigorous, yet have the potential to reach a wide audience.” — Zachary A. Casey, coauthor of Building Pedagogues: White Practicing Teachers and the Struggle for Antiracist Work in Schools
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