Engaging the African Diaspora in K-12 Education

Kia Lilly Caldwell is Professor of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is Director of the African Diaspora Fellows Program and served as Co-Director with Emily Chávez from 2014 to 2018. Emily Susanna Chávez is Director of Equity and Justice at Duke School, an independent school in Durham, North Carolina. She was the African Diaspora Fellows Program Co-Director from 2014 to 2018.

List of Figures – List of Tables – List of Contributors – Acknowledgments – Edmund T. Gordon: Foreword – Kia Lilly Caldwell/Emily Susanna Chávez: Introduction – Rachel Sarah O’Toole: Afro-Latin Americans Within and Beyond Colonial Enslavement – Signe Peterson Fourmy: "A Mixture of Love and Pain": Teaching Enslaved Women’s Labor, Motherhood, and Reproductive Resistance – Laurent Dubois: Why Haiti Should Be at the Center of the Age of Revolution – Kia Lilly Caldwell: Teaching the History of Slavery Beyond the United States – Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja: Pan-Africanism: Roots, Evolution, and Global Impact – Tanya L. Shields/Kathy A. Perkins: Telling Stories of Home: Pedagogy, Practice and the Potential for Lasting Change – Priscilla Layne: Using Black German Studies to Dissect Race in the American Classroom – Cassandra Newby-Alexander: In Search of the ‘Twenty and Odd’: Reclaiming the Humanity of America’s First Africans in the Virginia Colony – Emily Susanna Chávez: Let Freedom Sing!: An Interview on African American Music with Mary D.　Williams – Hasan Kwame Jeffries: Challenging the Master Narrative: Teaching the Civil Rights Movement Accurately and Effectively – Christopher L. Busey/Elizabeth Milligan Cordova: Transnational Blackness: Theoretical, Curricular, and Pedagogical Considerations for Contextualizing Afro-Latin@ Identity in U.S. History Courses – Fabiola Salas Villalobos: The Importance of Recognizing Afrodescendientes As Fundamental Members of Latin Countries: Using Costa Rica As an Example of How to Enrich Students’ Perspectives on the African Diaspora – Alysa M. Handelsman: Ethnography As Decolonial Pedagogy in Ecuador: Youth-Led Research and Learning – Sharbari Dey: Discomforting: The Need for Culturally Relevant Professional Development for K–12 Educators – Ronda Taylor Bullock: Challenging White-Washed Curriculum: A Critical Race Theory Approach – John B. Gartrell: Teaching the African Diaspora with Primary Sources – Mireille Djenno: Bibliographic Resources for Learning About and Teaching the African Diaspora – Daniel Kelvin Bullock: Expanding the Presence of the African Diaspora in Schools – Michelle McLaughlin and Justyn Knox: The Making of a Scholar: Building Educators’ Competence and Expertise for Teaching the African Diaspora – Holly Marie Jordan: Teaching As Everyday Resistance – Savannah Blystone: A New Focus – Sashir Pasha Moore-Sloan: Immersing a Middle School Social Studies Classroom in the African Diaspora: My Journey As an African Diaspora Fellow – Savannah Blystone: "I am unbreakable": Developing and Maintaining Identity and Other Forms of Resistance to the Transatlantic Slave Trade – Diane Smith: The Haitian Revolution: Its History and Connection to the Negritude Movement – Holly Marie Jordan: Resistance Rhetoric: Analyzing Activist Texts from Abolition to #BlackLivesMatter – Index.

“The search for new educational futurities for young learners today is growing in the intensity of scholarly debates. Engaging the African Diaspora in K–12 Education offers new critical perspectives on teaching and learning about the African diaspora. The book is a much-needed addition to this growing scholarship on Black and African education. It provides scholarly and practical insights from middle and high school teachers, researchers, and school administrators. The material covered is geographically broad, examining historical and contemporary issues of relevance to African diaspora communities in the Americas and Europe. A valuable resource for educators and school administrators, this book is a welcome addition to scholarship on the African diaspora in the field of education. This book is highly recommended.”—George J. Sefa Dei, Professor of Social Justice Education & Director, Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies,Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

“When academic researchers and teachers collaborate, the knowledge produced and shared can be quite liberating. This innovative volume of interdisciplinary scholarship and pedagogy liberates us from obsolete, incomplete historical narratives, which, lacking an accurate African diaspora knowledge base, sustain misguided efforts to teach such vexingly complex topics as ‘slavery.’ The knowledge of African diasporic identities, histories and heritages in this volume not only changes the narrative about Africa’s peoples here and there in the world, it gifts us with an urgently needed global framework to integrate K–12 teaching within Africana/Black/diaspora studies. Bravo!”—Joyce E. King, Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair of Urban Teaching, Learning & Leadership, Georgia State University; Past-president, The American Educational Research Association