TY - JOUR
T1 - Black lives matter and global struggles for racial justice in education learning from the movement for black lives
T2 - Horizons of racial justice for comparative and international education
AU - Strong, Krystal
AU - Walker, Sharon
AU - Wallace, Derron
AU - Sriprakash, Arathi
AU - Tikly, Leon
AU - Soudien, Crain
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/2
Y1 - 2023/2
N2 - This opening editorial for the special issue “Black Lives Matter and Global Struggles for Racial Justice in Education” engages with the theory and praxis of Black Lives Matter (BLM). One cannot fully understand the powerful intellectual and political work of BLM without considering the macro-level structural forces of state violence, racial capitalism, and anti-Blackness that BLM boldly challenges. To this end, the editorial first outlines the origins of the Movement for Black Lives and the genealogy of Black resistance that informs it. We then interrogate the global legacies of state violence that BLM confronts and the foundational systems of anti-Blackness and racial capitalism that sustain structural inequalities in schools and society. Finally, we return to BLM’s charge to forge abolitionist horizons within and beyond the Global North in order to set out implications for the field of comparative and international education and global struggles for racial justice in education.
AB - This opening editorial for the special issue “Black Lives Matter and Global Struggles for Racial Justice in Education” engages with the theory and praxis of Black Lives Matter (BLM). One cannot fully understand the powerful intellectual and political work of BLM without considering the macro-level structural forces of state violence, racial capitalism, and anti-Blackness that BLM boldly challenges. To this end, the editorial first outlines the origins of the Movement for Black Lives and the genealogy of Black resistance that informs it. We then interrogate the global legacies of state violence that BLM confronts and the foundational systems of anti-Blackness and racial capitalism that sustain structural inequalities in schools and society. Finally, we return to BLM’s charge to forge abolitionist horizons within and beyond the Global North in order to set out implications for the field of comparative and international education and global struggles for racial justice in education.
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U2 - 10.1086/722487
DO - 10.1086/722487
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85147739133
SN - 0010-4086
VL - 67
SP - S1-S24
JO - Comparative Education Review
JF - Comparative Education Review
IS - S1
ER -