Just what is afropessimism and what’s it doing in a nice field like education?: Unpacking new contributions to Black educational thought

Gordon, C. Darius

doi:10.1080/13613324.2022.2122522

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“…In the same vein, policies that rightly have been subjected to critical analysis, such as the purchase and use of student lists by Jaquette and Salazar (2024; “A Sociological Analysis of Structural Racism in ‘Student List’ Lead Gen-eration Products”), are interrogated here using perspectives drawn from theories of structural racism. This, too, expands the range of conceptual and political tools that are available and makes it more likely that this perspective can provide links to such developments as Afro-pessimism and other critical traditions (see Gor-don, 2023).…”

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Critical Policy Analysis: Gains and Challenges

Apple

2024

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

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The special issue documents the conceptual, empirical, and political progress that critical policy analysis in education has made. The contributions build on and employ the tools that have already been established, while they represent new critical approaches and combinations, each of which provides paths to be developed even further. I discuss the gains, limits, and paths to take to strengthen these analyses.

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Critical Policy Analysis: Gains and Challenges

Apple

2024

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

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“…Considering Afrofuturism in the context of antiblackness concretizes a firm connection to the BlackCrit framing idea of Black liberatory fantasy. Gordon (2022) was explicit in interpreting this idea by identifying it as a way to acknowledge the antiblackness of the present while maintaining an orientation toward the imagining of new futures and new worlds. He explained that even in the midst of an antiblack environment, Black people must have hope:…”

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It will take nations of billions to obstruct our dreams: extending BlackCrit through Afrofuturism

Toliver

2023

JME

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to further theorize BlackCrit to include a deeper focus on the framing idea of Black liberatory fantasy via Afrofuturism. Design/methodology/approach To develop the theoretical connections, the author revisits their previous scholarship on Black girls’ Afrofuturist storytelling practices to elucidate how the girls used their speculative narratives to critique the antiblackness present in their schools and the world at large and to create future worlds in which they have the power to create the world anew. Findings This paper discusses the relationship between BlackCrit and Afrofuturism by considering three interrelated ideas: how Afrofuturism acknowledges the antiblackness embedded in the USA; how BlackCrit makes space for liberatory Black futures and otherwise worlds; and how each theoretical idea inherently complements the other. Originality/value This paper creatively uses a hip hop album as a foundation for the portrayal of the intricate connections between Black pasts, presents and futures. As a conceptual paper, it pushes educators and researchers to consider the call and response between antiblackness and Black futurity.

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Improving the Black Doctoral Pipeline Through Critically Reflexive (Co-)mentoring

Lacy¹

2023

Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning

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Just what is afropessimism and what’s it doing in a nice field like education?: Unpacking new contributions to Black educational thought

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

Critical Policy Analysis: Gains and Challenges

Critical Policy Analysis: Gains and Challenges

It will take nations of billions to obstruct our dreams: extending BlackCrit through Afrofuturism

Improving the Black Doctoral Pipeline Through Critically Reflexive (Co-)mentoring

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