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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299522103321

Autore

Clennon Ornette D

Titolo

Black Scholarly Activism between the Academy and Grassroots : A Bridge for Identities and Social Justice / / by Ornette D. Clennon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2018

ISBN

3-030-00837-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 pages)

Disciplina

305.55208996073

371.82996041

Soggetti

Educational sociology

Educational policy

Education and state

Educational sociology 

Education and sociology

Ethnicity in Education

Educational Policy and Politics

Sociology of Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction: Whiteness, Social Justice and Greek Mythology? -- Chapter 2. Whiteness and my Twelve Labours -- Chapter 3. Whiteness: The Relationship between the Market and Blackness -- Chapter 4. What is Education for? Is it for learning Whiteness? -- Chapter 5. Can modern Pan-Africanism help us to visualise a future without Whiteness? -- Chapter 6. Resisting post-truth Whiteness: The Grassroots as sites of Black Radical Activism.

Sommario/riassunto

'This is a timely and important book that expertly combines personal narrative with nuanced theoretical analysis. Black Scholarly Activism between the Academy and Grassroots is a deeply engaging work that urges the reader to consider the possibilities and challenges facing academics who work towards social justice. Once picked up, this is a difficult book to put down: a must read.' —Remi-Joseph Salisbury, Leeds Beckett University, UK This book explores the 'invisible' impact



whiteness has on the lived 'black' experience in the UK. Using education as a philosophical and ethical framework, the author interrogates the vision of Black Radicalism proposed by Kehinde Andrews, exploring its potential applicability to grassroots activism. Clennon uses an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to draw together his previous writings on 'blackness', in effect crystallising the links between commercial (urban) blackness, the pathological structures of whiteness and institutional control. Drawing inspiration from Robbie Shilliam's cosmologically related 'hinterlands' as an antidote to the nature of colonial (Eurocentric) epistemologies, the author uses the polemical chapters as gateways to theoretical discussion about the material effects of whiteness felt on the ground. This controversial and unflinching volume will be of interest to students and scholars of race studies, particularly within education, and the lived black experience. Ornette D. Clennon is a Visiting Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is also an activist and writer, working both at local and national levels, and in 2011 received the NCCPE Beacons New Partnerships Award for his enterprise and activism work.