1st Edition
Conceptualizations of Blackness in Educational Research
Conceptualizations of Blackness in Education engages the specific junction of educational research and multiple theorizations of Blackness. In this volume, authors narrate how they have come to conceptualize Blackness through reading, writing, research, training, and practice. The contributors reflect a range of personal and political perspectives and experiences, disciplinary roots, and career stages. The stories in each chapter are intended to encourage more theoretically reflexive and vulnerable conversations among scholars of Black Studies in Education committed to reducing inequality in the lives of Black youth. They are not merely stories about theory; the stories are theories themselves.
Series Editor Introduction
1. Introduction: Conceptualizations of Blackness in Educational Research
rosalind hampton, Sefanit Habtom, and Joanna L. Williams
Part I: The jewels of our souls: Blackness and the fullness of existence
2. All That We Are
rosalind hampton
3. The Spiritual Aesthetics of Black World Creation: A Departure from Blackness as the Unfree
Justin A. Coles
4. Toward an Ontology of Black Intimacy
Wilson Kwamogi Okello
5. Towards Black and Indigenous Kinship and Desire
Jada Similton
Part II: Illuminating Im/Possibilities
6. Lighting the Way
Sefanit Habtom
7. Becoming Storied: Impossible Storytelling as an act of Fugitive Wake Work
Sean Cameron Golden
8. “I’ve been down so long it looks like up to me”: The Practice of Racial Formation as Overthrow
Brian D. Lozenski
Part III: Black Futurities
9. Dear Desiree
Joanna L. Williams
10. The beautiful, beautiful river: Toni Morrison and theorizing Blackness outside the white gaze.
Shamari K. Reid
11. Faulty Foundations: Research and reckoning with antiblackness in mathematics education
Blake O’Neal Turner
12. Imagining Possible Black Girl Futures: Critical Self-Reflection as Praxis for Theorizing with Black Girls
Autumn A. Griffin and Jennifer D. Turner
Biography
rosalind hampton, is Assistant Professor of Black Studies, Department of Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada.
Sefanit Habtom, is Postdoctoral Scholar in the College of Education, University of Washington, USA.
Joanna L. Williams, is Associate Professor, School Psychology Department, Rutgers University, USA.
