Reflections on African-Centered School Culture Creation and Leadership

Banwo, Bodunrin

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“…Furthermore, it refers to homogeneous locations or closed homogeneous networks (such as Mennonite, Mormon, Amish, Rural Small Towns, and Native American reservations) places where leaders can quickly shift organizations' cultural practices, rules, and power dynamics without much social or community pushback. Moreover, I theorize that Ethno Organizations are hyper-focused on cultural practices that socialize younger members into an Imagined Community, a Black Nationalist or Pan-Africanist project in the case of African-centered schools (Banwo 2020).…”

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A Community within a Community: Collectivism, Social Cohesion and Building a Healthy Black Childhood

Banwo¹

2022

Anthropology & Edu Quarterly

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This article features in‐depth interviews and ethnographic vignettes that explore collectivism, social cohesion, and Black educational leadership as a strategy to infuse liberatory practices in the educational process. The article examines how the social foundation of African‐centered ethos of collectivism can shift how marginalized students approach and experience learning and socialization inside mainstream K‐12 educational systems. Additionally, this article introduces a new theoretical concept entitled Ethno‐Cultural Responsiveness. This theory explains how sub‐culture groups socialize new members into their particular ideological and sub‐cultural communities. This research demonstrates how African‐centered leaders shape their schools through an ideological inquiry designed to challenge what they perceive as the cultural negation of African histories and understandings. Moreover, the leaders featured in this article use their public‐facing political project (an African‐centered institution) grounded in the politics of Black Nationalism and Pan Africanism to design and shape their institutional cultures to be responsive to people racialized in western counties as Black.

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A Community within a Community: Collectivism, Social Cohesion and Building a Healthy Black Childhood

Banwo¹

2022

Anthropology & Edu Quarterly

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Reflections on African-Centered School Culture Creation and Leadership

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A Community within a Community: Collectivism, Social Cohesion and Building a Healthy Black Childhood

A Community within a Community: Collectivism, Social Cohesion and Building a Healthy Black Childhood

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