All We Need Is One Mic: A Call for Anti-racist Solidarity to Deconstruct Anti-Black Racism in Educational Leadership. Issue 1 (January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Genao, Soribel; Mercedes, Yaribel
• Other Names: Lopez Ann guest-editor.; Jean-Marie Gaëtane guest-editor.; Genao Soribel guest-editor.; Choi Daniel guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Journal of school leadership. Volume 31:Issue 1/2(2021)
• Page Start: 127
• Page End: 141
• Publication Date: 2021-01
• Subjects: anti-racism -- anti-Blackness, solidarity -- educational leadership -- Critical Race Theory; School management and organization -- United States -- Periodicals; Administration scolaire -- États-Unis -- Périodiques; School management and organization; United States; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 371.2
• DOI: 10.1177/1052684621993046
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2631-9659

Abstract

In this article, we outline some of the vital measurements of racism and anti-blackness as a macro system in education. We contend that principal preparation programs have not explicitly prioritized anti-racist school leadership, while often resisting the possibilities of solidarity or one mic of knowledge to increase anti-racist dispositions. Considering the lexicon of whiteness as an assemblage, a racial discourse should be "supported by material practices and institutions, " that prepare educational leaders to examine anti-blackness curriculum that have been embedded as a standard method. We also posit that theoretical understanding of racism as global whiteness from a post-oppositional lens and decoloniality that will challenge the way racism is currently referenced in educational leadership scholarship. Moreover, current global and decolonial research gives way for a new vision of solidarity by humanizing scholarly resistance that cultivates a vision of community that regards differences of knowledge across groups and investigates racist policies and practices in educational leadership programs.