A Return Home Is a Chance to Learn: African Reflection and the Task of Unlearning Anti-Blackness

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Abstract

This research explores how race, ideology, socialization, and politics inform how students within Western schools (organizations) metabolize notions of self-racialize imagine, Blackness, and racism. Moreover, we examine how notions of Africa are used as a social construct and how visiting the continent of Africa disrupted ideas, propaganda, and Western concepts of Africa and its people. That believe ultimately directly affects how black children understand their racialized selves. This research is intended to assist educators in understanding how systematic norms like systems in schools, hidden- curriculums, images, and attitudes toward Africa affect black students negatively. Study participants are asked to reflect on their journey to African consciousness and how their K-12 educational participation affected their understanding of the mother continent.

Authors

• Azure Parker, University of Massachusetts - Boston

• Bodunrin O. Banwo, University of Massachusetts - Boston