Cartographies of blackness and black indigeneities / edited by George J. Sefa Dei, Ezinwanne Odozor and Andrea Vásquez Jiménez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dei, George J. Sefa (George Jerry Sefa), 1954- editor.

Odozor, Ezinwanne, editor.

Vásquez Jiménez, Andrea, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Race identity.

Black people.

Black people--Social conditions.

Black people--Study and teaching.

Black people--Education.

Black people--Ethnic identity.

Race--Philosophy.

Race.

Physical Description:

xviii, 259 pages ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Cartographies of blackness & black indigeneities

Place of Publication:

Gorham, Maine : Myers Education Press, [2020]

Contents:

Conceptualizing Blackness: Theorizing Indigeneity

1 Teaching Race and (African) Indigeneity: Personal Reflections of a Black Scholar p. 1 / George J. Sefa Dei

2 Black Indigenization as Politics of Transformation: Implications of the Zimbabwe Experiment p. 23 / Munyaradzi Hwami and Edward Shizha

3 Making Peace with Movement: Dislocation and the Black Diaspora p. 41 / Ezinwanne Toochukwu Odozor

Resisting Anti-Blackness and Anti-Black Racisms

4 Writing Black Life: Theoretical Underpinnings p. 51 / Marlon Simmons

5 Navigating Being a Tall Black Female in Hostile Environments p. 63 / Carta Rodney

6 In Search of Dark Stars: Addressing Anti-Blackness in Schools through Critical Racial Embodiment in Educational Leadership p. 83 / Michelle Forde

7 Unlearning Our Blackness p. 101 / John Castillo

8 The Black Woman Who Has Learned to Fear Herself: An Inquiry of the Myth of the Angry Black Woman p. 119 / Ke'Shana Danvers

9 Special Education: When and Where Does Blackness Fit in? p. 135 / Shaniqwa Thomas

10 Prisoners of a Skin Color: The Criminalization and the Social Construction of Blackness in Risk Assessment of Black Youth p. 155 / Paul Banahene Adjei and Harriet Akanmor

Black Futurity and Educational Praxis

11 The Complexities of Race, Racialization, Blackness, and Africanness: Working to Decolonize My Teacher Education Program p. 175 / Andrew Allen

12 Black Theorizing in Academia: Toward an Anti-Colonial Reading, a Response to Professor George J. Sefa Dei p. 193 / Jennifer Mills

13 Black Graduation at the University of Toronto: A Case for Placemaking as Liberation Praxis p. 213 / Jessica P. Kirk

14 A Spiritual Call for Afrocentric Learning Spaces and a Reflection on the Current State of Afrocentric Education in Toronto p. 227 / Kimbra Yohannes Iket

15 The Intersection of Afrofuturism and African Indigenous Knowledge Systems: The Implications for Black Studies p. 247 / Gloria Emeagwali.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781975501075

9781975501068

1975501063

1975501071

OCLC:

1140138948

Publisher Number:

99984288916