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Somewhere Between a Rock and an Outer Space: Regenerating Apocalyptic Education.

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: As Black people, our everyday existence invites us to remember that anti-blackness is the foundation of modern civilization and has metastasized throughout every construction of civil society (Sharpe, 2016). Our existence within schools unveils them as self-replicating enclosures spawned by the plantation to undermine Black life (Sojoyner, 2017). In this paper, we use an Apocalyptic Educational framework (Marie & Watson, 2020) to share research on the biological (telomere) impact of schooling and anti-blackness. We aim to distinguish education from schooling and disrupt normative beliefs that more Black children accessing better schools will lead to their social, economic, and physiological wellness.

Source: PubMed

Authors: Kenjus Watson, Tiffani Marie

Institutions: San Francisco State University, San Jose State University

Language: English

Topic: Critical Race Theory in Education

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Quality education, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Awards: SF BUILD: Enabling full representation in science, Clinical and Translational Science Institute