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Wynter-Hoyte, Kamania; Smith, Mukkaramah – Journal of Literacy Research, 2020
This article examines the partnership between a teacher and teacher educator disrupting a colonized early childhood curriculum that fosters a dominance of whiteness by replacing it with the beauty and brilliance of Blackness. We explore the following research question: "What are the affordances of teaching from an Afrocentric stance in a…
Descriptors: African American Children, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Collaboration, Culturally Relevant Education
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Gillborn, David – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2013
Drawing on Critical Race Theory (CRT) and illustrating with examples from the English system, the paper addresses the hidden racist dimension to contemporary education reforms and argues that this is a predictable and recurrent theme at times of economic crisis. Derrick Bell's concept of "interest-convergence" argues that moments of…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, African American Children, Whites
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Gillborn, David; Rollock, Nicola; Vincent, Carol; Ball, Stephen J. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2012
The article discusses the findings of an ESRC funded project (RES-062-23-1880) which used in-depth interviews to explore the educational experiences and strategies of 62 Black Caribbean parents; the biggest qualitative study of education and the Black middle class yet conducted in the UK. The article focuses on the parents' interactions with their…
Descriptors: African American Children, Middle Class, Criticism, Educational Experience
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Vaught, Sabina E. – SUNY Press, 2011
Racism and inequity in U.S. education are pervasive and consistent problems, unavoidable facts of public schooling in this country. This book is a multisite critical race ethnography of institutional relationships and organization in a large, urban, West Coast school district. In this daring and provocative work, Sabina E. Vaught examines the…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Racial Discrimination, Equal Education, Public Education
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Seaton, Eleanor K.; Caldwell, Cleopatra H.; Sellers, Robert M.; Jackson, James S. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2010
The present study examined discrimination attributions in the psychological well-being of Black adolescents. Findings are based on a representative sample of 810 African American and 360 Caribbean Black youth, aged 13-17, who participated in the National Survey of American Life. Youth completed measures of perceived discrimination, discrimination…
Descriptors: African American Children, Life Satisfaction, Adolescents, Age Differences