Culturally Relevant Education and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad

Session Submission Type: Panel Session

Abstract

This panel presentation seeks to explore the construct of institutional White supremacy as a substructure underpinning the American education system. On several occasions, The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan called for Black educators to take over the educational system. He intensified this cry October 10, 2015. This examination is a response to his demands to eradicate the racist Western education model. The research questions that guide this presentation: What is the purpose of education? What should education produce? What should be present in a new curriculum?
The panel’s intention is to inspire and encourage black administrators, faculty, and policy makers to look outside the existing curriculum and build a separate educational system. Our proposed educational paradigm injects the “Teachings” of The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad into formal education. His paradigm speaks directly to the needs of the Blackman, woman, and child by erasing misnomers of innate black inferiority. Each panelist will forward their personal experiences regarding the importance of culturally relevant pedagogy and how the “Teachings” possess the proclivity to usher in a new educational system.

Sub Unit

• 102nd Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

Chair

• Fredrick Douglass Dixon, University of Illinois

Individual Presentations

• A New Educational Paradigm - Bro. Troy 5X Muhammad, A New Educational Paradigm; Fredrick Douglass Dixon, University of Illinois; Dr. Abul Pitre, Texas Prarie View University; Sis. Debroah Muhammad, A New Educational Paradigm

• A New Educational Paradigm - Bro. Troy 5X Muhammad, A New Educational Paradigm; Sis. Debroah Muhammad, A New Educational Paradigm; Dr. Abul Pitre, Texas Prarie View University; Fredrick Douglass Dixon, University of Illinois

• The Lessons of The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad - Sis. Debroah Muhammad, A New Educational Paradigm

• Sociology 209 and The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan - Fredrick Douglass Dixon, University of Illinois

• The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Education - Dr. Abul Pitre, Texas Prarie View University

Commentator

• ASALH Audience, .