The following page discusses Black Futures’ role in classrooms and guiding teachers & students in their research, discussions, and overall education in related to Black studies, Black ecologies, & African social research.
Continue reading “Black Futures: Education”Category: Education
Fireside Chat: Black Futures, Race, Inequality, & Public Policy
This video involves a discussion or “fireside chat” between two Black Futures Scholars, Jacquelyn Ortiz and Maya McFarlane. In this presentation, they discuss their research, lessons they learned in Prof. Beeman’s Race, Inequality, and Public Policy course, their career goals, and how their work relates to Black Futures. Key quotes from the talk:
Continue reading “Fireside Chat: Black Futures, Race, Inequality, & Public Policy”Black Futures Project: Education and Advocacy – Toward Equity
By Jacquelyn Ortiz
Jacquelyn Ortiz links education as a fundamental right and key to unlocking full human potential to Black futures in this final paper for Race, Inequality, and Public Policy with Professor Angie Beeman. This paper addresses the history and continuing legacy of racial inequity in education and how to better engage in efforts to create change through social justice advocacy. The paper takes a critical look at the role color-blind and post-racial ideologies play in maintaining structural inequities. Using works by Lindsay Perez Huber, Susana Muñoz, Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Curtis Ivery, Joshua Bassett, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Paolo Freire, this paper explores the disconnect between ideologies of equality and implementation of equity-based policies and practices.
Continue reading “Black Futures Project: Education and Advocacy – Toward Equity”