“Does the Negro Need Separate Schools?” Bellian, Duboisian, and Contemporary Approaches to Black Educational Renewal

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Sunday 1:30 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3
  In Roundtable Session: Renewal, Reclamation, and Recovery: Resistive Pedagogies in Times of Revile (Table 2)

Abstract

Black scholars have begun to critique the widespread use of CRT by liberal scholars by arguing that what gets touted as CRT is in fact a diluted, integration-oriented distortion of the original theory founded by Derrick Bell. This tendency has grafted post-racial humanism and racial amelioration onto the very foundation of CRT. In this presentation, we challenge the pervasive articulation of CRT by arguing for a return to Bell’s Racial Realism thesis. Educationally, we invoke Racial Realism, Duboisian educational philosophy, and historic educational practices to argue against the strategy of integrating Black children into anti-Black educational spaces. Instead, we seek to offer real world examples of Racial Realism in the form of thriving and affirming contemporary Black educational spaces.

Authors

• E. Anthony Muhammad, Georgia Southern University

• Andre Benito Mountain, Georgia Southern University

• Ashley Griffin Gilchrist, Bowie State University