“Be Real Black for Me”

2016/02/23 by Michael J. Dumas, kihana miraya ross, Kihana Miraya Ross · 5 citations
Social Sciences · #Critical Race Theory in Education #Diverse Education Studies and Reforms #Education Discipline and Inequality

paper · doi:10.1177/0042085916628611

crossref issued 2016/02/23 · crossref published 2016/02/23 · crossref published-online 2016/02/23 · openalex publication_date 2016/02/23 · crossref created 2016/02/24 · crossref published-print 2016/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · crossref deposited 2026/05/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/03 · crossref indexed 2026/08/03

Abstract

The authors put forward a theorization of a Black Critical Theory, or what might be called BlackCrit, within, and in response to, Critical Race Theory, and then outline ways that BlackCrit in education helps us to more incisively analyze how the specificity of (anti)blackness matters in explaining how Black bodies become marginalized, disregarded, and disdained in schools and other spaces of education.

Citations

• The Color of Supremacy: Beyond the discourse of ‘white privilege’
• Native Mascots and Ethnic Fraud in Higher Education: Using Tribal Critical Race Theory and the Interest Convergence Principle as an Analytic Tool
• The Color of Discipline: Sources of Racial and Gender Disproportionality in School Punishment
• Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
• 1. Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
• Toward a Tribal Critical Race Theory in Education
• Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh)
• Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education

Cited by

• All Around the World Same Song: Transnational Anti-Black Racism and New (and Old) Directions for Critical Race Theory in Educational Research
• Black Girl Joy (Un)Interrupted: Recognizing and Nurturing Black Girls' Community-Building Capabilities in the Early Grades
• Samirah X’s Sense of Audience: A Case Study on Black Teen Activism on Social Media
• Blackgirl face: racialized and gendered performativity in mathematical contexts
• Dismantling anti-black linguistic racism in English language arts classrooms: Toward an anti-racist black language pedagogy