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Diaspora Literacy, Heritage Knowledge, and Revolutionary African-Centered Pedagogy in Black Studies Curriculum Theorizing and Praxis Reference library
Joyce E. King
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies
...including Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice—to name a few—sparked massive global Black Lives Matter (BLM) public protests. In a Foreword to the collection of essays entitled Black Lives Matter at School , BLM co-founder Opal Tometi ( 2020 ) observed: the United States is in the midst of an urgent moral and legal crisis over the safety, liberty and well-being of Black young people . . . both within classroom and outside the school grounds Black lives are under threat. (pp. xi, xiv) The volume’s...
Antiblackness and the Adultification of Black Children in a U.S. Prison Nation Reference library
Amir A. Gilmore and Pamela J. Bettis
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality in Education
...that offered a more complete, not competing narrative about race, gender, and policing in America. Arguably, #SayHerName was launched in response to the #BlackLivesMatter movement—a movement created in 2013 by Black and queer activists Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi following the murder of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of George Zimmerman ( Black Lives Matter, n.d. ). While the #BlackLivesMatter movement led to awareness of injustices against Black people, it has been criticized for focusing on the lives of Black boys and men,...
