Toward a Black Radical Independent Education: Black Radicalism, Independence and the Supplementary School Movement

Abstract

This word separation has been misused...a better word than separation is independence Malcolm X (1970, p.9) Black Radicalism believes in the centrality of racism to Western imperialism and a Diasporic commitment to the liberation of Africa; existing in distinction to Black Nationalism, Marxism and Critical Race Theory. A Black radical critique of schooling is presented and the mischaracterisations of Black radicalism as segregationist and separatist are examined. Black independent education is a necessary feature of Black radicalism and the Black supplementary schools movement in Britain exists as a potential space where such an education can be developed.

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