Communities of activism : black women, higher education and the politics of representation /

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Imprint:London : UCL, Institute of Education Press/Trentham Books, 2020.
Description:xi, 173 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12416862
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Other authors / contributors:Etienne, Jan, editor.
ISBN:1858569001
9781858569000
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • About the contributors
  • Acknowledgements and editor's note
  • Part 1. Activism inside the academy
  • 1. Introduction. Education for survival: Black lives and black women's activism
  • 2. Black women academics: Politics of representation and community activism in the African diaspora
  • 3. Aspiration, Exclusion and Achievement: Reflections on black educational inequalities
  • 4. 'Hello Trouble': Black women academics and the struggle for change
  • Part 2. Intergenerational voices: Black women respond to crisis and black youth
  • 5. Black youth, loss of trust and the crisis of knife crime: Pursuing a Womanist strategy
  • 6. Drill Music, violence and criminalization: Gendered platforms for resistance
  • 7. Pain, anger and youth resistance: Police racial awareness training and the contemplations of a black mother
  • 8. Educating Ryan: Black youth surviving a British Education system
  • Part 3. Black women in higher education, supporting and collaborating internationally for change
  • 9. And they didn't die: Black women and the silencing of activist voices
  • 10. Whiteness in denial: Promoting culturally specific conversations in higher education
  • 11. Supporting black sisters in UK higher education: A question of activism
  • Conclusion
  • 12. Beyond Brexit: Black women in higher education, collaborating internationally for change
  • Index