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A Black Principal's Decolonizing Journey for Racial Justice

A Black Principal's Decolonizing Journey for Racial Justice

Jamel Adkins-Sharif
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 27
ISBN13: 9781799872351|ISBN10: 1799872351|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799872368|EISBN13: 9781799872375
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7235-1.ch012
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Adkins-Sharif, Jamel. "A Black Principal's Decolonizing Journey for Racial Justice." Black and Brown Leadership and the Promotion of Change in an Era of Social Unrest, edited by Sonia Rodriguez and Kelly Brown, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 271-297. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7235-1.ch012

APA

Adkins-Sharif, J. (2021). A Black Principal's Decolonizing Journey for Racial Justice. In S. Rodriguez & K. Brown (Eds.), Black and Brown Leadership and the Promotion of Change in an Era of Social Unrest (pp. 271-297). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7235-1.ch012

Chicago

Adkins-Sharif, Jamel. "A Black Principal's Decolonizing Journey for Racial Justice." In Black and Brown Leadership and the Promotion of Change in an Era of Social Unrest, edited by Sonia Rodriguez and Kelly Brown, 271-297. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7235-1.ch012

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Abstract

This chapter is a critical autoethnographic analysis of a Black male school leader enacting racial and social justice in his school improvement efforts. A reflexive dialogue between dissertation research findings and related leadership experiences seek to extricate the colonial structure of public education and the colonizing intent of schooling as experienced by a Black principal and the communities of color from which his students and caregivers derive. Three dynamics are identified as oppressive: white moves towards Black domination, white privilege, and intersecting oppressions. Three decolonizing acts are highlighted: centering of racial justice, catalyzing critical community consciousness and agency, and dismantling intersecting oppressions through counter narration.

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