Reckoning with Racism in Family-School Partnerships: Centering Black Parents' School Engagement

ISBN-13: 9780807767245 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Jennifer L. McCarthy Foubert; James a. Banks

Spis treści

• Contents
• Series Foreword
• James A. Banks ix
• Preface xv
• Acknowledgments xix
• 1. The Racial Reality of Schools for Black Families 1
• "The Most Livable City" . . . For Whites Only 2
• The Parent Participants 3
• Black Lives Matter: The 2014–15 School Year Context 4
• Critical Race Theory 7
• A More Liberatory Future With CRT 12
• 2. Racial Realist Parent Engagement 13
• "Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't, Apparently" 14
• Parents' Approaches to Teaching Children About Anti-Black Racism 20
• Racial Realist Parent Engagement as a Framework for School Partnerships With Black Families 26
• 3. Resisting Individualism and Engaging for the Collective 29
• In Everyday School Involvement 30
• When Choosing Schools and Extracurriculars 33
• In the Community 35
• In Parent Groups 37
• Engaging for Collective Educational Justice 38
• 4. The Persistence of White Supremacy in Shared School Governance 40
• Restrictive, Still-Restrictive, and Expansive Visions of Equality 42
• Parent Teacher Organizations 44
• African American Empowering Parent Groups 48
• The African American Parent Council 52
• BOSD's Still-Restrictive Visions of Equality 53
• 5. Five Years Later: The Ongoing Salience of Racial Realist Parent Engagement 55
• The New Sociopolitical Context of 2019 56
• Persistence of Racial Realist Parent Engagement Across Time and Space 57
• Strategically Stepping Away From Shared School Governance 62
• Calling on Educators to Join Black Families in Resisting 63
• 6. In Conclusion: Mapping More Liberatory Family–School Partnerships 64
• Untethering Education Quality From Individual Parents' Engagement 65
• Reorienting Toward Collective Educational Justice 67
• Expansive Equality in Shared School Governance 69
• Conclusion 72
• Appendix: Study Methodology 73
• Recruiting Participants 74
• Participant Demographics 74
• Data Collection 75
• Data Analysis 77
• Humanizing Research 77
• Notes 79
• References 81
• Index 85
• About the Author 89