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Investing in the Educational Success of Black Women and Girls
[This book] demonstrates, from our own lived experiences, the multifaceted and continued need to look critically at the historically and present day exclusionary policies, practices and structure of U.S. education that serve to predetermine our success. This anthology pushes us all to dig deeper into the organizational intent of learning as a transformational and liberatory practice, and to cast aside its role as indoctrination.Clarice Bailey, Faculty, Organizational Development and Leadership, Saint Josephs University
What an amazing collection of essays! What a profound acknowledgment and powerful testament of the lives, histories, brilliance, beauty, and perseverance of Black women and girls. For too long, others have tried silencing, disempowering, and erasing Black women and girls within inequitable edu- cational systems. This collection brings to light these realities while placing needed attention on mattering for Black women and girls who will never stop working for our liberation, freedom, justice, and wellbeing.Valerie Kinloch, Rene and Richard Goldman Dean and Professor, School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh
Centers the significant challenges Black girls and women face in schools and society while simultaneously bringing forth the beauty in them being their full selves. It is a timely book that provides educators, leaders, and policymakersacross the educational pipelineyet another chance to provide schooling experiences worthy of Black girls, their magic, and their brilliance. Perhaps someday soon they will get it right.Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Associate Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
This book pushes our understanding of Black women and girls beyond the stereotypical model minority myths of magic. The authors unpack the complexities of experiences that includes injustice and resilience within education and across intersecting systems. This critical resource positions Black women and girls at the center, which is where they belong, in postsecondary research and beyond.Tiffany Jones, Deputy Director of Measurement Learning and Evaluation for Postsecondary Success at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
INVESTING IN THE EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS OF BLACK WOMEN AND GIRLS
INVESTING IN THE EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS OF BLACK WOMEN AND GIRLS
Edited by Lori D. Patton, Venus E. Evans-Winters, and Charlotte E. Jacobs
Foreword by Cynthia B. Dillard
COPYRIGHT 2022 BY STYLUS PUBLISHING, LLC.
Published by Stylus Publishing, LLC.
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Sterling, Virginia 20166-2019
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Patton, Lori D., editor. | Evans-Williams, Venus E., editor. | Jacobs, Charlotte E., editor.
Title: Investing in the educational success of Black women and girls / Edited by Lori D. Patton, Venus E. Evans-Winters, and Charlotte E. Jacobs ; Foreword by Cynthia Dillard.
Description: First edition. | Sterling, Virginia : Stylus Publishing, LLC, [2022] | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: The purpose of this book is to illuminate scholarship on Black women and girls throughout the educational pipeline. The contributors--all Black women educators, scholars, and advocates--name the challenges Black women and girls face while pursuing their education as well as offer implications and recommendations for practitioners, policymakers, teachers, and administrators to consider in ensuring the success of Black women and girls-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021045673 (print) | LCCN 2021045674 (ebook) | ISBN 9781620367964 (cloth) | ISBN 9781620367971 (paperback) | ISBN 9781620367988 (pdf) | ISBN 9781620367995 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: African American women--Education--Social aspects. | African American girls--Education--Social aspects. | Academic achievement--United States. | Education and state--United States. | Discrimination in education--United States.
Classification: LCC LC2717 .I58 2022 (print) | LCC LC2717 (ebook) | DDC 371.829/96073--dc23/eng/20211006
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021045673
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021045674
13-digit ISBN: 978-1-62036-796-4 (cloth)
13-digit ISBN: 978-1-62036-797-1 (paperback)
13-digit ISBN: 978-1-62036-798-8 (library networkable e-edition)
13-digit ISBN: 978-1-62036-799-5 (consumer e-edition)
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First Edition, 2022
I dedicate this book to the collective of Black women and girls who deserve to be loved, to be seen, to be heard, and to simply be. Lori D. Patton
I dedicate these words of wisdom and scholarly ideas inscribed on the sheets of this book to all the Black women scholars who have tenaciously endured the ebb and flow of what we know plainly as education. Venus E. Evans-Winters
I dedicate this book to all of the Black women and girls who came before me and in whose footsteps I follow, and to all of the Black girls who come after me. Thank you for your brilliance, your power, and your joy. Charlotte E. Jacobs
CONTENTS
Cynthia B. Dillard
Ruth Nicole Brown and Aria S. Halliday
Gholnecsar E. Muhammad
Nicole M. Joseph
Charlotte E. Jacobs
Erin S. Corbett
Venus E. Evans-Winters and Dorothy E. Hines
Tiffany L. Steele
LaWanda W.M. Ward, Ayana T. Hardaway, and Nadrea R. Njoku
Lori D. Patton, Keeley Copridge, and Sacha Sharp
Jamila L. Lee-Johnson
Janice A. Byrd and Christa J. Porter
Mercedes Adell Cannon
Mildred Boveda
Maisha T. Winn
Monique Lane
Tykeia Robinson and Brittany Williams
Toby S. Jenkins and Vivian Anderson
FOREWORD
I grew up as a Black girl in Seattle, Washington. Given the rather small population of Black people in the Pacific Northwest, understanding who we were both individually and as a collective was mostly the purview of our immediate and extended families and the precious few other places where Black people gathered. And whenever we could, we definitely gathered. One of those sites of gathering was in our church, an important space and place of Black spiritual and social life both then and now. As a curious child, I learned and grew tremendously in this space. But when I became an adolescent and started teaching Sunday school, I heard a story that has served as a touchstone throughout my academic career as a scholar who cares deeply about the lives of little Black girls and the Black women they become, an echo of the voices gathered in this book.
