- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > History / World
Full Description
Futuring Black Lives is a historical ethnography examining Black institution builders in the late 1960s and early 1970s and their work to leverage the power of publications and the literary imagination to engage "concerned men and women" in conversations about the educational journeys and futures of Black children. While many began as reactions to anti-Blackness and American public schooling failing Black children, Independent Black Institutions (IBIs) came to be viable ecosystems anchored in a shared Black value system preparing Black children in three areas: identity, purpose, and direction.
The rationale for establishing and valuing IBIs remains highly relevant, given the sociopolitical landscape of education today. In addition to persistent racial disparities in academic achievement and Black students' highly disproportionate experiences of punishment and "discipline," friction and legislation against critical examination of race, racism, and racist ideas in school settings are front and center, and children's and young adult literature are under attack through censorship and outright book bans. Yet Black institution builders left useful maps of and for the educational future/s of Black children that remain available in journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and other ephemera. Author Maisha T. Winn demonstrates how and why the historiography-grounded futuring of Black education can and should inform current pursuits of equity, justice, and liberation through education.
Contents
Foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley
Introduction: When Histories and Futures Meet
1: "What About Our Tomorrows?": Institution Building for Black Lives
2: "We are studying to advance the struggle": IPE Visionaries Forecasting for Black Lives
3: Between "Precariousness" and "Possibility": The Emergence of Black Books Bulletin
4: "There Is No Magic...Except the Magic of Truth": Nation Building with Books for the Young
5: "The Present Passes...The Next Day—Mars": Futuring for Black Lives
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes
Index
