Description:
This book is a call for the transformation of English education to embrace rather than reject Blackness. Employing an original framework, Critical Race English Education, Johnson reveals how English education is dominated by eurocentric literacy practices, and provides a justice-oriented framework that combats anti-Black racism.
Review Quotes:
"Through a series of creative and tangible examples of what it means to work with Black youth, Dr. Johnson refuses to let us discard a simple question: What does it mean for Black youth to navigate the hostility and anti-Black violence of the US schooling system? Additionally, his series of meditations push educators to contemplate a question of fugitivity and the future: What does it mean to work from a space of love knowing that 'school' in its historical and contemporary function is never intended to do right by you?"
--David Stovall, University of Illinois Chicago, USA