Reframing Blackness and Black Solidarities through Anti-colonial and Decolonial Prisms

• Main Author: Dei, George J. Sefa (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Critical Studies of Education ; 4
• Subjects: Education.; Educational sociology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Sociology of Education.; Ethnicity in Education.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

This book grounds particular struggles at the curious interface of skin, body, psyche, hegemonies and politics.  Specifically, it adds to current [re]theorizations of Blackness, anti-Blackness and Black solidarities, through anti-colonial and decolonial prisms.  The discussion challenges the reducti...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword – Molefi Asante
• 1 (Re) framing Blackness, Anti-Blackness and Black Solidarities Through Anti-Colonial and Decolonial Prisms
• 2 Towards a (Re)theorization of Blackness, Anti-Blackness and Black Solidarities
• 3 Blackness and Colonial Settlerhood: A Provocation
• 4 So Why Do that Dance of Anti-Blackness? 5 A Call to a New Dance: Decolonizaation and Indigeneity as International Categories
• 6 Counter-Visioning Black Education: Rhetorical Turns and Critical Discursive Shifts
• 7 Learning from the Experiences of Being a Black Body in the Western Academy: Countering Hegemonic Thoughts
• 8 Rethinking Blackness: Some Concluding Thoughts on Power and Knowledge
• References.