Do You Have Any Thriving Black Students? Troubling "Quality" in Early Childhood Education

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Abstract

We draw from multiple research projects and our own lived experiences as motherscholars raising Black mixed-race children to inform the development of a conceptual framework to analyze the politics of belonging specific to Black mixed race youth. We draw from Crowley’s definition of the politics of belonging to conceptualize the boundaries in question as a politicized community of belonging in the U.S. context. We critique perspectives on belonging that assume sameness or agreement as a space to belong. Instead, we draw insight from Black mixed-race youth who have pushed us to think about diverse spaces as openings for belonging as we explore the central question of this paper: Where do Black mixed-race youth find a sense of belonging?

Authors

• Joy Howard, Appalachian State University

• Fabienne Doucet, New York University