Black Critical Theory in Children's Literary Analysis

Gardner, Roberta Price

doi:10.1002/9781119038276.ch24

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“…In literary studies, education scholars have examined the ways in which BlackCrit allows educators and researchers to notice how texts reckon with the hauntings of enslavement in contemporary Black youth’s lives, recover and rewrite historical narratives often missing from the US archival record and provide space for individual and communal healing as well as social justice (Cueto and Brooks, 2019, 2022). In fact, Gardner (2022) emphasized that because children’s literature is a site in which antiblack racism thrives, BlackCrit is an essential theoretical response. Specifically, she notes the following :…”

Section: Bring the Noise A Theoretical Clamormentioning

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It will take nations of billions to obstruct our dreams: extending BlackCrit through Afrofuturism

Toliver

2023

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to further theorize BlackCrit to include a deeper focus on the framing idea of Black liberatory fantasy via Afrofuturism. Design/methodology/approach To develop the theoretical connections, the author revisits their previous scholarship on Black girls’ Afrofuturist storytelling practices to elucidate how the girls used their speculative narratives to critique the antiblackness present in their schools and the world at large and to create future worlds in which they have the power to create the world anew. Findings This paper discusses the relationship between BlackCrit and Afrofuturism by considering three interrelated ideas: how Afrofuturism acknowledges the antiblackness embedded in the USA; how BlackCrit makes space for liberatory Black futures and otherwise worlds; and how each theoretical idea inherently complements the other. Originality/value This paper creatively uses a hip hop album as a foundation for the portrayal of the intricate connections between Black pasts, presents and futures. As a conceptual paper, it pushes educators and researchers to consider the call and response between antiblackness and Black futurity.

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Section: Bring the Noise A Theoretical Clamormentioning

confidence: 99%

It will take nations of billions to obstruct our dreams: extending BlackCrit through Afrofuturism

Toliver

2023

JME

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Black Critical Theory in Children's Literary Analysis

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It will take nations of billions to obstruct our dreams: extending BlackCrit through Afrofuturism

It will take nations of billions to obstruct our dreams: extending BlackCrit through Afrofuturism

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