Call for Tracks | Special Issue of Black Educology: Punished For Dreaming

Editors:
Dre Carte, University of San Francisco
Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, University of San Francisco
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Special Guest Producer: Bettina Love | Teachers College, Columbia University

This call seeks submissions that not only build on her blistering critique of the educational system but also work to advance educational liberation for Black students and teachers. This special issue highlights select chapters from Punished for Dreaming to declare the utility and necessity of transformative education by acknowledging the need for educational reparations and affirming Black teachers | students ability to save ourselves. We invite submissions that build on key themes from Love’s work. Our goal is to work toward collective action that is rooted in building, fighting, and dreaming in ways that disrupt, subvert, and destroy antiblackness in education.

The producers invite original manuscripts (theoretical and empirical), creative, and afro-futuristic that have not yet been published on any website, journal, or book from educators, activists, scholars, and students that address any of the following topics: 

• Black Children At Risk
  • How do schools work as a disservice to Black students|teachers?
• No Entrepreneur Left Behind
  • What are the repercussions of educational policy on Black students?
• Erasure
  • How have attacks on CRT worked to erase Black possibility and freedom dreaming?
• Carceral Ineveitabilty
  • How do Black teachers disrupt the reproduction of carcerality in schools?
• Standardizing Carcerality
  • How do we disrupt the “lynching tool” of standardized testing?
• White Philanthropy
  • What would Teach for Black America look like?
• The Trap of DEI
  • How can Black students|teachers be centered in DEI?
• Let Us Celebrate
  • How do we build an ecosystem of Black joy, laughter, and affirmation as resistance within the apparatus of education?
• A Call For Educational Reparations
  • How will educational reparations for Black people be good for all people?

Submission Guidelines: Please submit your manuscript (3,000-8000 words), creative works, or questions to blackeducology@gmail.com by November 10, 2023.

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