Independent Black Education Movements: Black Communities in Pursuit of Their Own Truth in Education Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The purpose of this symposium is to examine entry points to independent Black education or how Black parents and educators strategize–both in the past and present–to create robust and relevant learning communities for Black children including independent educational institutions such as African-centered schools, homeschooling, and out-of-school learning spaces. Authors of these papers assert that these studies of self-determined educational pathways created for and by Black people are often missing from the “evidence” of education research seeking to understand how to best serve Black children in schools.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 1: Education and Place, Space, Time

Chair

• Maisha T. Winn, University of California - Davis

Papers

• Politics, Space, and Pedagogy: Black Independent Education in Boston (1969–1985) - Zenzile Saharee Riddick, Harvard University

• "Out of the Darkness of Miseducation": Independent Black Institutions and the Literary Imagination - Maisha T. Winn, University of California - Davis

• Contemporary Black Homeschooling as Refuge, Self-Determination, and Liberation - Cheryl A. Fields-Smith, University of Georgia

• Learning on Mother's Island: Sandy Young and the Columbia Point Educational Program, 1965–1973 - Christian J. Walkes, Harvard University

Discussant

• Carol D. Lee, Northwestern University