"Hey, Black Child. Do You Know Who You Are?" Using African Diaspora Literacy to Humanize Blackness in Early Childhood Education

Autor/inn/en	Wynter-Hoyte, Kamania; Smith, Mukkaramah
Titel	"Hey, Black Child. Do You Know Who You Are?" Using African Diaspora Literacy to Humanize Blackness in Early Childhood Education
Quelle	In: Journal of Literacy Research, 52 (2020) 4, S.406-431 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Wynter-Hoyte, Kamania)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1086-296X
DOI	10.1177/1086296X20967393
Schlagwörter	African American Children; Early Childhood Education; Teacher Collaboration; Culturally Relevant Education; Afrocentrism; Critical Theory; Race; African Culture; Racial Identification; Sexual Identity; Identification (Psychology); Student Diversity; Racial Bias; Language Usage; Black Dialects; Elementary School Students; Elementary School Teachers; African American Community + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? African Americans; Child; Children; Afroamerikaner; Kind; Kinder; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Lehrerkooperation; Afro-centrisme; Afrozentrismus; Kritische Theorie; Rasse; Abstammung; Africa; Culture; Afrika; Kultur; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Sprachgebrauch; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende
Abstract	This article examines the partnership between a teacher and teacher educator disrupting a colonized early childhood curriculum that fosters a dominance of whiteness by replacing it with the beauty and brilliance of Blackness. We explore the following research question: "What are the affordances of teaching from an Afrocentric stance in a first-grade classroom?" We employ Afrocentrism, which includes African cultural principles as the paradigm, and our theoretical lenses are Critical Race Theory and Black Critical Theory. Our Sankofa methodology revealed that African Diaspora literacies fostered (a) positive racial and gender identities, (b) community, and (c) positive linguistic identities in the work to help children to love themselves, their histories, and their peoples. We close with implications. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/1/01