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Blackness as intervention: Black English outer spaces and the rupturing of antiblackness and/in English education

Justin A. Coles, +1 more
- 25 Oct 2021 - 
- Vol. 20, Iss: 4, pp 454-484
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This article is published in English Teaching-practice and Critique.The article was published on 2021-10-25. It has received 4 citations till now.

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“We just do us”: How Black teachers co-construct Black teacher fugitive space in the face of antiblackness

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors present findings from an empirical study that sought to understand how Black teachers collectively built a Black affinity space in response to the antiblackness they faced in their school sites, and draw on notions of fugitivity from Black Studies to theorize this space as a pro-Black fugitive space.
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“Getting lost in stars and glitter”: black girls’ multimodal literacies as portals to new suns

TL;DR: Using Octavia Butler's prophetic writing, specifically passages from her Parable series, as a conceptual lens, this article explored the ways one Black girl uses multimodal literacies to imagine new worlds that center and celebrate her Black girlhood.
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Girls of Color Embodied and Experiential Dreams for Education

TL;DR: The authors explored an after-school writing club for middle school girls of Color (GOC) and argued that GOC consistently leverage incisive critiques of schooling through multiple literacies, including embodied and experiential ways of knowing and communicating.
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Storying against non-human/superhuman narratives: Black youth Afro-futurist counterstories in qualitative research

TL;DR: In this article , the authors present two composite Afro-futurist counterstories developed by Black high school students in a summer writing course, which confront antiblackness and disrupt the ways the regime makes educators complicit in seeing Black youth as nonhuman/superhuman.
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“Be Real Black for Me”: Imagining BlackCrit in Education

TL;DR: This article put forward a theorization of a Black Critical Theory, or what might be called BlackCrit, within, and in response to, Critical Race Theory, and then outline ways that BlackCrit in educa...
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The Case of Blackness

Fred Moten
- 01 Jan 2009 - 
TL;DR: The cultural and political discourse on black pathology has been so perva sive that it could be said to constitute the background against which all representations of blacks, blackness, or (the color) black take place.
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Beyond white privilege: Geographies of white supremacy and settler colonialism

TL;DR: The authors argue that engaging with white supremacy is a form of colonialism and white supremacy, and argue for an expanded focus that includes settler colonialism, white supremacy and white privilege, as well.
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‘Losing an arm’: schooling as a site of black suffering

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore suffering as a recurring theme in the narratives of four black leaders, educators and activists involved in the struggle for black educational opportunity in that city during the post-Civil Rights Era.
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Afrocentricity: A Cornerstone of Pedagogy

TL;DR: The authors examine alternative ways that Afrocentric knowledge can be constructed and legitimized within various epistemological constructs, making relevant connections to African cultural patterns and cultural production in order to emphasize the legitimacy of the Afro-centric perspective.
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