A Paradise to Regain

Post-Obama Insights from Women Educators of the Black Diaspora

Immaculée Harushimana, Mary Alfred, R. Deborah Davis, Immaculée Harushimana, Mary Alfred, R. Deborah Davis

• Publisher: Myers Education Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781975501112
  9781975501105
• eBook ISBN:
  9781975501136
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

The history of presidential politics reached a new and significant milestone with the election of Barack Obama in 2008. It sparked great hope in America for greater racial equity and social justice. A Paradise to Regain: Post-Obama Insights from Women Educators of the Black Diaspora seeks to avert the likelihood of erasure of President Obama's legacy of hope and possibility that every child, regardless of race, faith, and gender affiliation, can dream big and live to see his/her dream turn into reality. As women educators of color, we all agree that the socio-political climate prevailing in the United States of America, since the aftermath of the 2016 election, requires unprecedented agency. The book provides space for Black women educators–African Americans, Naturalized Black Americans, and Foreign-born Blacks from Africa, the Caribbean Islands and South America (e.g., Guyana)–to have a candid conversation with their young children—sons and daughters, nephews and nieces—about the roadblocks they are likely to face as minority youth of color in their pursuit of greatness and the reminder that they have a role model in President Obama to look up to in moments of extreme frustration and exasperation. Voices of engaged educators of color are indispensable to make sure that children understand that that despite a 360-degree turn from eight consecutive years of a reassuring message that "change had come," that paradise had been gained, into the threatening message of "making America white again," we count on them to regain the paradise.

Perfect for courses such as: Racism and Education Inequality in the Lives of African-American Youth, Introduction to the African Diaspora, Equity and Diversity in Schools, Place, Language, Power and Knowledge, Global and Multicultural Education in the Secondary School, Issues in Urban Education, Culture Power and Education, Social Class Education and Pedagogy, Language, Culture, and Education, The Politics of Literacy and Race in Schools, Race and Racism in Education and Society, Race, Ethnicity and Linguistic Diversity in Classrooms and Communities, and Education and Society.

Index

#MeToo, 61, 75

90210 (TV show), 181

A

Abamenja (traitors), 257

absent fatherhood, 218, 221

academic freedom, 25

activist administrator, 252

acts of racism, 74

Adult Basic Education (ABE) 85, 87

Affordable Care Act (ACA), 201

African American Vernacular (AAVE), 113

African American experience, 54

African American-Hispanic, 179, 180

African American identity, 226

African American Muslim women, 226

African Americans, 1, 3, 22, 64, 89, 154, 177, 200, 224, 294

African-born female, 11

African cultural beliefs, 95

African Diaspora 168, 174

African feminism, 77

African patriarchy, 93

African proverbs, 213

African traditions, 68

Africanizing the curriculum, 32

Afro-Caribbean, 22

Afrocentric, 13

Afro-phobia, 265

Agar, Muller-Hinton, 154

agent of change, 243

Ali, Muhammad, 226

alien immigrant, 22

alienation, 158

alternative epistemology, 31

Aluta Continua, 145

Amandla Awethu, 145

American dream, 106, 170

American immigration policy, 24

American non-Hispanic, 180

American Press survey (2011), xiii

Americanness, 113

Angelou, Maya, 31, 64, 76, 276

Anti-apartheid activist, 142

anti-black, xv

anti-civil rights, 255

anti-immigrant, xv, 256

anti-immigrant America, 12

anti-Semitism, 265

anti-slavery, 255

Apartheid, 78, 79, 94, 122, 139, 141

Apartheid-free president, 139

applied linguistics, 121

“articulate,” 2

Articulatedness, 123

A-team, 143

Audacity of Hope, The, 207, 210

authentic American, 268

B

Baldwin, James, 251

Barack Hu...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Introduction: Eight Years of Paradise: An Obama Will Come Again
• Section I: The Burden of Leading While Black
• Section II: Gender Equality and Women Empowerment
• Section III: How Brave Art African Women Immigrants?
• Section IV: Black Self-Affirmation
• Section V: Can a Black Male Child Dream Big in a Melanin-Phobic World?
• Section VI: Paradise to Regain: Change Must Come Again
• Conclusion: Looking Back to Move Forward: A Black Women’s Collective (Re-)Imagining and (Re-)Membering Hope and Change
• Contributors
• Index