Conceptualizing possibilities for Black boys through the educational continuum

Clark, Jelisa S.; Wint, Keisha M.; Brooms, Derrick R.

doi:10.1080/09518398.2023.2181461

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Introduction to the Special Issue: The Lives (and Futures) of Black Children and Youth

Brooms,

Medford

2024

Social Problems

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As social science scholarship on Black children and youth continues to expand and to explore their experiences, there remains a need to investigate how families, communities, relationships, and social institutions impact their experiences. The theme for this special issue is inspired in part by our consideration of Black children’s and youths’ present realities and their futures. The editors of this volume are interested in creating space to analyze and theorize the radical possibilities for Black children to flourish in a world that typically ignores, marginalizes, and dismisses their plights and their promise. Privileging the agency of Black youth, the articles in this special issue provide nuanced accounts of how they make sense of many aspects of their lives and futures.

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Introduction to the Special Issue: The Lives (and Futures) of Black Children and Youth

Brooms,

Medford

2024

Social Problems

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Disrupting Educational Spaces

Hawkins III

2023

Advances in Early Childhood and K-12 Education

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This chapter explores the weaponization of whiteness within education, particularly in K-12 education. Situated as a cultural phenomenon, educators who ascribe to this ideology do so out of fear–fear of what they understand and know to be true; young African American boys are the epitome of public intellectuals. However, marred by some educational leaders and stakeholders, many young African American males within our educational systems are bound to a common narrative that marginalizes, dehumanizes, and positions them as less than others. Low-performing, ill-equipped, hyperactive, and a societal problem is a narrative that enters classroom and learning spaces all too often before they do. In this work, the hope is to begin a courageous conversation regarding the implications of whiteness and how it egregiously disrupts the education of young African American boys. Also, framed as an autoethnography, readers will engage in seven questions to learn firsthand why a culture of whiteness within our school and classroom spaces is a crisis we must seriously dismantle.

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Conceptualizing possibilities for Black boys through the educational continuum

Cited by 2 publications

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Introduction to the Special Issue: The Lives (and Futures) of Black Children and Youth

Introduction to the Special Issue: The Lives (and Futures) of Black Children and Youth

Disrupting Educational Spaces

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