Reckoning With Racism in Family–School Partnerships - Jennifer L. McCarthy Foubert

Reckoning With Racism in Family–School Partnerships

Centering Black Parents' School Engagement
Buch | Hardcover
112 Seiten
2022
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-6725-2 (ISBN)
109,70 inkl. MwSt
Drawing from the experiences of Black parents as they engaged with their children’s schools, this book brings a critical race theory analysis to family-school partnerships. It examines racism and white supremacy at school, Black parents’ resistance, and ways school communities can engage in more authentic partnerships with Black and Brown families.
Drawing from the lived experiences of Black parents as they engaged with their children’s K–12 schools, this book brings a critical race theory (CRT) analysis to family–school partnerships. The author examines persistent racism and white supremacy at school, Black parents’ resistance, and ways school communities can engage in more authentic partnerships with Black and Brown families. The children in this study attended schools with varying demographics and reputations. Their parents were engaged in these schools in the highly visible ways educators and policymakers traditionally say are important for children’s education, such as proactively communicating with teachers, helping with homework, and joining PTOs. The author argues that, because of the relentless racism Black families experience in schools, educators must depart from race-evasive approaches and commit to more liberatory family–school partnerships.


Book Features:




Includes an introduction to CRT and explains how it informed this study.
Draws from Derrick Bell’s notion of racial realism to make sense of Black parent participants advocating for high-quality education in the context of persistent anti-Black racism.
Examines how Black parents resisted individualism and were, instead, committed to improving the education of all marginalized children.
Shows how white supremacy operated in shared school governance despite schools having inclusive practices.
Explores how anxiety and stress caused by the Trump presidency impacted parents’ school engagement.
Describes three ways any school community can develop family–school partnerships for collective educational justice.

Jennifer L. McCarthy Foubert is an assistant professor of educational studies at Knox College, and a sociologist of education, critical race theorist, and teacher educator. Jennifer is a former Seattle Public Schools teacher who has worked with preservice and practicing teachers, and parents and families, for two decades across a variety of school community contexts.

Contents


Series Foreword James A. Banks ix

Preface xv

Acknowledgments xix


1. The Racial Reality of Schools for Black Families 1

"The Most Livable City" . . . For Whites Only 2

The Parent Participants 3

Black Lives Matter: The 2014–15 School Year Context 4

Critical Race Theory 7

A More Liberatory Future With CRT 12


2. Racial Realist Parent Engagement 13

"Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t, Apparently" 14

Parents’ Approaches to Teaching Children About Anti-Black Racism 20

Racial Realist Parent Engagement as a Framework for School Partnerships With Black Families 26


3. Resisting Individualism and Engaging for the Collective 29

In Everyday School Involvement 30

When Choosing Schools and Extracurriculars 33

In the Community 35

In Parent Groups 37

Engaging for Collective Educational Justice 38


4. The Persistence of White Supremacy in Shared School Governance 40

Restrictive, Still-Restrictive, and Expansive Visions of Equality 42

Parent Teacher Organizations 44

African American Empowering Parent Groups 48

The African American Parent Council 52

BOSD’s Still-Restrictive Visions of Equality 53


5. Five Years Later: The Ongoing Salience of Racial Realist Parent Engagement 55

The New Sociopolitical Context of 2019 56

Persistence of Racial Realist Parent Engagement Across Time and Space 57

Strategically Stepping Away From Shared School Governance 62

Calling on Educators to Join Black Families in Resisting 63


6. In Conclusion: Mapping More Liberatory Family–School Partnerships 64

Untethering Education Quality From Individual Parents’ Engagement 65

Reorienting Toward Collective Educational Justice 67

Expansive Equality in Shared School Governance 69

Conclusion 72


Appendix: Study Methodology 73

Recruiting Participants 74

Participant Demographics 74

Data Collection 75

Data Analysis 77

Humanizing Research 77


Notes 79

References 81

Index 85

About the Author 89

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Multicultural Education Series
Mitarbeit Herausgeber (Serie): James A. Banks
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 162 x 235 mm
Gewicht 222 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8077-6725-5 / 0807767255
ISBN-13 978-0-8077-6725-2 / 9780807767252
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