Educational Experiences of Anti-Blackness and Afropessimism

• In Event: Culturally Responsive Schools

Abstract

This presentation uses Critical Black Theory or BlackCrit (Dumas & Ross, 2016) with an anti-Blackness and Afropessimism framework to analyze the storied experiences of 15 African American participants whose voices were silent during school desegregation efforts that took place from 1971 to 1995 in Kansas City, Missouri. We examine the experiential narratives of multiple generations of school desegregation across layered roles of students, parents, educators, and community members. Our paper resonates with the call for proposals and communicates core intersectional ideas and theoretical lenses about race, racism, privilege, and patriarchy for reimagining education and schooling for Black children and other marginalized groups.

Authors

• Loyce E. Caruthers, The University of Missouri-Kansas City

• Candace M. Schlein, University of Missouri - Kansas City

• Jennifer Ingrid Friend, Rockhurst University