"Be Real Black for Me": Imagining BlackCrit in Education. (April 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dumas, Michael J.; ross, kihana miraya
• Other Names: Donnor Jamel K. guest-editor.; Dixson Adrienne D. guest-editor.; Anderson Celia Rousseau guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Urban education. Volume 51:Number 4(2016)
• Page Start: 415
• Page End: 442
• Publication Date: 2016-04
• Subjects: Urban Education -- race -- identity -- racism -- social -- school reform; Education, Urban -- Periodicals; Enseignement en milieu urbain -- Périodiques; Éducation; Milieu urbain; Périodique électronique (Descripteur de forme); Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme); 370.91732
• DOI: 10.1177/0042085916628611
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0042-0859

Abstract

The authors put forward a theorization of a Black Critical Theory, or what might be called BlackCrit, within, and in response to, Critical Race Theory, and then outline ways that BlackCrit in education helps us to more incisively analyze how the specificity of (anti)blackness matters in explaining how Black bodies become marginalized, disregarded, and disdained in schools and other spaces of education.