ERIC Number: ED612782
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021-May-11
Pages: 138
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ISBN: 978-0-367-72589-1
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Black Liberation in Higher Education: Considerations for Research and Practice
Haynes, Chayla, Ed.; Castillo-Montoya, Milagros, Ed.; Hailu, Meseret F., Ed.; Stewart, Saran, Ed.
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
In this book on higher education the contributors make The Black Lives Matter (#BLM) their focus and engage in contemporary theorizing around the issues central to the Movement: Black Deprivation, Black Resistance, and Black Liberation. The #BLM movement has brought national attention to the deadly oppression shaping the everyday lives of Black people. With the recent murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd from state-sanctioned violence by police, the public outrage and racial unrest catapulted #BLM further into the mainstream. Institutional leaders (e.g., provosts, department heads, faculty, campus administrators), particularly among white people, soon began realizing that anti-Blackness could no longer be ignored, making #BLM the most significant social movement of our time. The chapters included in this volume cover topics such as white institutional space and the experiences of Black administrators; a Black transnational ethic of Black Lives Matter; depictions of #BLM in the media; racially liberatory pedagogy; campus rebellions and classrooms as sites for Black liberation; Black women's labor and intersectional interventions; and Black liberation research. The considerations for research and practice presented are intended to assist institutional leaders, policy-makers, transdisciplinary researchers, and others outside higher education, to dismantle anti-Blackness and create supportive mechanisms that benefit Black people, especially those working, learning and serving in higher education. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of "International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education."
Descriptors: Higher Education, African Americans, Racial Discrimination, Social Action, Resistance (Psychology), Trauma, Administrators, College Faculty, College Students, Activism, News Media, Freedom, Females, Violence
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Publication Type: Books; Collected Works - General
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: Policymakers; Researchers
Language: English
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