Understanding the Political: African-Centered Leaders Building Organizations of Care and Support

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Abstract

This research explores the leadership perspectives of K-12 African-centered school leaders and a public-facing political and educational project grounded in the politics of Pan-Africanism. The research examines how African-centered leaders, through a systematic examination called an “Organizational Inquiry,” operationalize African history and conceptions of black “ways of being” into a unique organizational culture. The researcher was interested in exploring how hidden ideologies and politics of white supremacy interject themselves into formal organizations and how leaders of schools with political and ideological goals disrupt these interjections.

Author

• Bodunrin O. Banwo, University of Massachusetts - Boston