Dawnavyn James

Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Black history mandates ain't new: (Re)covering and (Re)membering the work of Madeline Morgan A worthy piece of work: The untold story of Madeline Morgan and the fight for black history in schools, by Michael Hines, Boston, Beacon Press, 2022, 218 pp., ISBN 978-080700742-6 Dawnavyn James [1] ; LaGarrett King [1] [1] University at Buffalo, State University of New York City of Buffalo, Estados Unidos Localización: Theory and research in social...

Abstract As an exploration of potential support structures for Black women teachers, this study elicits the wisdom of Black women as othermothers who serve in an array of urban instructional settings. Using a Sista Circle Methodology as framed through Black Girl Cartographies and Radical Mothering, we found that through the dual healing processes of (re)membering and (re)fusal, these women became one another's homeplaces.

I fell in love with Black history at a very young age. I come from a family with roots in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Detroit. A family of Black cowboys, storytellers, landowners, entrepreneurs, gin makers, community leaders, and doctors. Unfortunately, I didn’t grow up seeing these stories told in the books in my school and local library, and Black history, outside of celebrations of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, was absent from the curriculum in the elementary schools I attended.