Understanding the Black Flame and Multigenerational Education Trauma - Toward a Theory of the Dehumanization of Black Students (Hardcover)

Unlike any text to date, this revolutionary study surveys Black research and literature to determine the processes formal education uses to dehumanize Black students. This is a socio-historical analysis of the Black Flame trilogy (BFT), W. E. B. Du Bois's unparalleled, thirty-year study of Atlanta, Georgia from Black Reconstruction (1860 - 1880) to 1956. W.E.B. Du Bois is one of the most prescient sociologists of the twentieth century in his research of Black people in America. These ground-breaking novels establish racialization, colonization, and globalization as processes that continue to dehumanize Black students in education. Africana critical theory (ACT), critical race theory (CRT), and Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS) privilege the research, voice, and experiences of Blacks. These theoretical frames speak to the pain and effects of the impact of unchecked, gross, voyeuristic violence that helps define the White supremacist patriarchal culture in which we live. Straight forward and direct, this book show how the processes of dehumanization contribute to the legacy of trauma White supremacy exacts upon Black people and their humanity. This study is aimed at highlighting the stark disparities in Black and White education over times. This book offers a candid look at how the myth of Black inferiority and the metaphor of the achievement gap describe conscious economic deprivation, mob violence and intimidation, and White supremacist curricula, yet continues to imply long-standing cultural notion of Blacks intellectual inferiority. This research is offered to help mitigate the multigenerational education trauma Blacks have experienced since Reconstruction to envision a educational system that is efficacious and socially just in the distribution of resources, expanding diversity in curricula, and exposing pedagogical biases that traumatize not only Black people but all people.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Critical Africana Studies
Release date:	May 2014
First published:	May 2014
Authors:	June Cara Christian
Contributors:	Mary Rogers-Grantham
Dimensions:	234 x 164 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	172
ISBN-13:	978-0-7391-7929-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Multicultural studies > General Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7391-7929-2
Barcode:	9780739179291

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