Communities of ActivismBlack women, higher education andthe politics of representationEdited by Jan Etienne

Pub Date: 7th September 2020ISBN: 978 1 85856 900 0Extent: 184 pagesPrice: £20.00Format: PaperbackTrim Size: 234 x 156mmImprint: Trentham BooksRights: WorldSubject: Social Justice, Equality and

Human Rights

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Endorsements:'An important and much needed book that brings together activists, practitioners and academics acrossgenerations to rethink education for social change. Essentially, this is a book about radical care and how Blackwomen are repairers of the breach.' – Akwugo Emejulu, Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick

Editor Information:Dr Jan Etienne is Associate Lecturer in Social Policy and Education at Birkbeck, University of London.

Description:How can black women academics improve the lives of young people in their community? Etienne and hercolleagues explore the ways they can intervene in two persistent and severe problems - the escalating knifecrime that costs ever more young lives, and the disproportionately low academic attainment of black studentscompared with their white peers.

Studies of students in the African diaspora and in South Africa cast light on the effects on UK schools, universitiesand society of Whiteness, discrimination and the colonial curriculum. The authors cast their net wide to indicatehow women's activism across generations can support black youth to resist the pressure of racism.

A must-read for anyone working in HE.

Audience: Professional and scholarly

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Table of Contents:INTRODUCTION: 1. Education for survival: Black lives and black women’s activism, by Jan Etienne; PART ONE:ACTIVISM INSIDE THE ACADEMY: 2. Black women in higher education: Politics of representation and communityactivism in the African diaspora, by Patricia Daley; 3. Aspiration, Exclusion and Achievement: Reflections on blackeducational inequalities in the UK, by Patricia Gilbert; 4. ‘Hello Trouble’: Black women academics and thestruggle for change, by Cecile Wright; PART TWO: INTERGENERATIONAL VOICES - BLACK WOMEN RESPOND TOCRISIS AND BLACK YOUTH: 5. Black youth, loss of trust and the crisis of knife crime: Pursuing a Womaniststrategy, by Palmela Witter; 6. Drill Music, Violence and Criminalization: Gendered [platforms] for resistance, byJan Etienne and Ezimma Chigbo; 7. Pain, anger and youth resistance: Police racial awareness training and thecontemplations of a black mother, by Lurraine Jones; 8. Educating Ryan: Black youth surviving a British Educationsystem, by Jan Etienne and Dawn Joseph; PART THREE: BLACK WOMEN IN HIGHER EDUCATION, SUPPORTINGAND COLLABORATING INTERNATIONALLY FOR CHANGE: 9. And they didn’t die: Black women and the silencing ofactivist voices, by Nombuso Mathibela; 10. Whiteness in denial: Promoting culturally specific conversations inhigher education, by Jan Etienne, Jen Davis and Fyna Dowe; 11. Supporting black sisters in higher education: Aquestion of Activism, by Uvanney Maylor; CONCLUSION: 12. Beyond Brexit: Black women in higher education,collaborating internationally for change, by Jan Etienne; Index

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