Education Across the African Diaspora

Derron Wallace is Associate Professor of Sociology, Education and (by courtesy) African and African American Studies at Brandeis University, USA. He is also a Research Fellow the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity and the University of Manchester, England. Kassie Freeman is Founding President and CEO of the African Diaspora Consortium and Senior Research Fellow, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. Ernest Morrell is Professor of English and Africana Studies, Director of the Center for Literacy Education, and Associate Dean of Humanities at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Henry Levin is William H. Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education, Columbia University and David Jacks Professor of Higher Education and Economics, Emeritus, Stanford University, USA.

Introduction—The Power of Education Across the African Diaspora: Exploring New Solutions for Old Problems 1. Education Across the African Diaspora, 1500–2020 2. Understanding the Afro-Ecuadorian Educational Experience: Anti-Blackness, Schooling, and the Nation 3. Slavery in Secondary History Textbooks from the United States and Brazil 4. Twice as Hard to Get Half as Far? Differences in Sheepskin Effects Between Afro-Colombian and Non-Afro-Colombian Women 5. Affirming Methodologies in Two African Diasporic Contexts: The Sharing of Knowledge Through Liming and Ole Talk Among Caribbean Islanders in Aotearoa New Zealand and the Practice of Sharing with Sydney-Based Africans 6. From Ethnic Minorities to Black Majorities: The Challenges and Dilemmas of Attempting to Decolonize the British Higher Education System 7. “I Would Have Become Wallpaper Had Racism Had Its Way”: Black Female Professors, Racial Battle Fatigue, and Strategies for Surviving Higher Education 8. Your Story Will Forever Float as Memory: Afrodiasporic Cultural Production and Activism in Black Canada