Education Across the African Diaspora

New Opportunities, Emerging Orientations, and Future Outcomes

Derron Wallace, Kassie Freeman, Ernest Morrell, Henry Levin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032616292
• eBook ISBN: 9781003810681
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: History of Education

This book examines the opportunities, orientations and outcomes that shape education for Black people across time, place and space throughout the African diaspora. It bridges gaps in education studies and African diaspora studies, noting the connections between these two formative fields as central to a fuller understanding of the history and futurity of African descendants around the world.

The chapters in this volume showcase the work of scholars across disciplinary boundaries, national contexts, and methodological expertise, all of whom are deeply concerned with education for Black children, young people and adults from critical perspectives. Crucially, this volume explores the social, political, psychic, and material dimensions of education for Black people within the African diaspora as already part of a larger global phenomenon—linking the national and the international, the local and the global for a more comprehensive understanding of the past, present and future of education for people of African descent around the world.

Education Across the African Diaspora will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of education studies, African diaspora studies, education history, African studies, black studies, ethnic studies and sociology. This book was originally published as a special issue of Peabody Journal of Education.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction—The Power of Education Across the African Diaspora: Exploring New Solutions for Old Problems
• 1 Education Across the African Diaspora, 1500–2020
• 2 Understanding the Afro-Ecuadorian Educational Experience: Anti-Blackness, Schooling, and the Nation
• 3 Slavery in Secondary History Textbooks from the United States and Brazil
• 4 Twice as Hard to Get Half as Far? Differences in Sheepskin Effects Between Afro-Colombian and Non-Afro-Colombian Women
• 5 Affirming Methodologies in Two African Diasporic Contexts: The Sharing of Knowledge Through Liming and Ole Talk Among Caribbean Islanders in Aotearoa New Zealand and the Practice of Sharing with Sydney-Based Africans
• 6 From Ethnic Minorities to Black Majorities: The Challenges and Dilemmas of Attempting to Decolonize the British Higher Education System
• 7 “I Would Have Become Wallpaper Had Racism Had Its Way”: Black Female Professors, Racial Battle Fatigue, and Strategies for Surviving Higher Education
• 8 Your Story Will Forever Float as Memory: Afrodiasporic Cultural Production and Activism in Black Canada
• Index