Full Description
Use this inspirational resource to engage in Pro-Black teaching with young children as an antidote to endemic anti-Black racism in schools and society. Drawing from a critical case study of K-3 teachers who use Pro-Black teaching in their daily instruction, this important book puts forth positive perspectives regarding Blackness and Black people that are not evident in most educational settings. An easy-to-understand text provides evidence-based curriculum examples, pedagogies, and resources; demonstrates how teachers can achieve Pro-Black teaching while also addressing curricular standards and other demands on their time; and explains the benefit of Pro-Black teaching for all children. The authors draw from decades of practice and research by Black scholars (e.g., Asa Hilliard, Janice Hale, Amos Wilson) to position racial identities as a key part of Black children's development. They center African Diaspora literacy as a Pro-Black pedagogy to ensure that Black children are competent in their own culture as well as in global cultures. Pro-Blackness in Early Childhood Education celebrates the agency, resistance, everyday lives, and joy of Black people.
Book Features:
Demonstrates how Pro-Blackness can be used to interrupt ethnocide practices that threaten Black children's culture and spirits.
Provides guidance for implementing and sustaining Pro-Black instruction, with accessible examples of curriculum and instruction.
Focuses on Pro-Blackness rather than anti-Blackness.
Includes examples of K-3 lessons from Drs. Diaspora curriculum that have been used in majority Black, majority White, and racially mixed classrooms.
Contents
Contents
Foreword Joyce E. King vii
Prelude—"Pro-Black . . . Yes!" A Poem by Adrian Green xiii
Introduction 1
Gloria Swindler Boutte, Jarvais J. Jackson, Saudah N. Collins, Janice R. Baines, George Lee Johnson, and Anthony Broughton
1. Pro-Blackness in Early Childhood Education 5
Gloria Swindler Boutte
2. Amplifying Pro-Black Perspectives in Child Development: The Children Will Be Well 25
Anthony Broughton and Gloria Swindler Boutte
3. Drs. Diaspora Curriculum: Cultural Continuity From the Nile to the Niger to Rivers in the United States 51
Gloria Swindler Boutte and George Lee Johnson
4. I'll Take You There: Envisioning and Sustaining African Diasporic Educational Spaces 71
Jarvais J. Jackson
5. Africanizing the Early Childhood Curriculum: Exploring Pro-Blackness Through African Diaspora Literacy 89
Saudah N. Collins
6. Pro-Blackness as a Loving Antidote in Early Childhood Classrooms 109
Janice R. Baines
7. African American Language (AAL): It's the Language for Me 125
Gloria Swindler Boutte
8. What's Up, Fam (Family)? 133
Saudah N. Collins and Jarvais J. Jackson
9. Reimagining Classroom "Management" Using Pro-Black and Restorative Approaches 149
Jarvais J. Jackson
Endnotes 173
References 175
Index 185
About the Authors 193
