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Futuring Black Lives: Independent Black Institutions and the Literary Imagination

Futuring Black Lives: Independent Black Institutions and the Literary Imagination

Winn, Maisha T.
Kelley, Robin D. G.

Paperback

Series: Black Lives and Liberation

Caribbean HistoryLiterary CriticismGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0826507913
ISBN13: 9780826507914
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: Jul 30 2025
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
Futuring Black Lives is a historical ethnography examining Black institution builders in the late 1960s and early 1970s and their work to leverage the power of publications and the literary imagination to engage concerned men and women in conversations about the educational journeys and futures of Black children. While many began as reactions to anti-Blackness and American public schooling failing Black children, Independent Black Institutions (IBIs) came to be viable ecosystems anchored in a shared Black value system preparing Black children in three areas: identity, purpose, and direction.

The rationale for establishing and valuing IBIs remains highly relevant, given the sociopolitical landscape of education today. In addition to persistent racial disparities in academic achievement and Black students' highly disproportionate experiences of punishment and discipline, friction and legislation against critical examination of race, racism, and racist ideas in school settings are front and center, and children's and young adult literature are under attack through censorship and outright book bans. Yet Black institution builders left useful maps of and for the educational future/s of Black children that remain available in journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and other ephemera. Author Maisha T. Winn demonstrates how and why the historiography-grounded futuring of Black education can and should inform current pursuits of equity, justice, and liberation through education.

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