Black Mother Educators

Advancing Praxis for Access, Equity and Achievement

Tambra O. Jackson

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781648024030
  9781648024047
• eBook ISBN:
  9781648024054
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice
• Index: Social Sciences

Drawing upon the theoretical frameworks of Beauboeuf-Lafontant (2002), Collins (2009), Crenshaw (1991), and Dillard (2012), this volume makes a case for centering the voices and experiences of Black women in the protection and educational uplift of Black children. While examinations of how Black educators articulate and enact a need to protect Black students from racialized harm exist (McKinney de Royston et. al., 2020), this book is a collection of autoethnographic narratives from Black mother educators who work at the intersections of their personal and professional identities to protect Black children. Intersectionality allows us to look at the nexus of our identities in regards to race, gender and occupation, as Black, women and educators. Our goal for this volume was to bring together scholars who can support theorizing the intersectionality of our identities as Black mothers and educators, particularly its influence on our pedagogical practices and the safekeeping of Black children. This volume explicates stories of motherwork from Black mother educators whose professional spaces span K-12 to higher education contexts. Collectivity, this volume expounds upon the dimension of 'protector' within the literature on Black women teachers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Black Mother Educators
• Black Mother Educators: Advancing Praxis for Access, Equity, and Achievement
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword: Black Mother Educators—Advancing Praxis for Access, Equity, and Achievement
• Introduction: Black Mother Educators—The Dora Milaje of Black Children in Schools
• Acknowledgments
• I. BLACK MOTHER EDUCATOR PRAXIS IN PK–12 CONTEXTS
• II. BLACK MOTHER EDUCATOR PRAXIS IN HIGHER EDUCATION CONTEXTS
• III. BLACK MOTHER EDUCATOR PRAXIS AS RESISTANCE
• About the Contributors