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Leading while black : reflections on the racial realities of black school leaders through the Obama era and beyond / Floyd Cobb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cobb, Floyd, author.
- Series:
- Black studies & critical thinking ; v. 76.
- Black studies & critical thinking
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational equalization--United States.
- Educational equalization.
- United States.
- Racism in education--United States.
- Racism in education.
- Educational leadership--United States.
- Educational leadership.
- African American children--Education.
- African American children.
- African American school administrators.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 115 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, [2017]
- Summary:
- What does it mean to lead while Black in America? How do Black educators lead for equity to ensure a quality academic experience for Black children when calls for equality are routinely discredited in our post-racial context? Through this book, Floyd Cobb passionately and honestly draws from his personal and professional experiences to describe his path to accepting the harsh realities of being an equity-minded Black leader in K-12 schools. Offered through the performance of autoethnography, Cobb highlights and gives voice to the often-unacknowledged vulnerability of equity-minded Black leaders who work in suburban contexts. Using the era of the Obama presidency as the backdrop for this work, Cobb illuminates the challenges and complexities of advocating for marginalized children who come from a shared racial heritage in a society that far too often are reluctant to accept such efforts. Through Leading While Black, emerging and aspiring Black leaders will be reminded that they are not alone in their struggles, but must nonetheless persist if we are to do our part in making education a better experience for our children. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Critical moments in post-racial America
- Between Carlton Banks and Django unchained : racism as humiliation
- The mis-education of the black leader
- Leading while black
- Still fighting for freedom : #BlackLeadershipMatters.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781433134432
- 1433134438
- 9781433134449
- 1433134446
- OCLC:
- 983799135
- Publisher Number:
- 99973697921
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