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Dillard, Cynthia B. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2021
Education elders must engage next generation Black thinkers and doers in addressing the complex global and spiritual issues in education today. Deep listening to the young is absolutely essential to imagining a future that is worthy of Black engagement and brilliance. In this article, I bear witness and honor the righteous version of endarkened…
Descriptors: African American Students, Equal Education, Excellence in Education, Feminism
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Dillard, Cynthia B. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2016
In this case study of a young Black woman educator from the southern United States, I examine how her engagements with Africa and African knowledges, culture and womanhood in Ghana, West Africa substantively transformed her selfhood and her ability to respond in cultural relevant and accurate ways in her teaching of Black children. From her story…
Descriptors: Case Studies, African American Teachers, Females, Feminism
Okpalaoka, Chinwe L.; Dillard, Cynthia B. – Educational Foundations, 2012
This article focuses on the sense of what an "African" (American) identity could mean when viewed through the processes of migrations and fluid identities of contemporary African immigrant children as they interact with their African (Americans) peers in schools. The purpose of this article is to use data from a study of West African…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Slavery, Educational Experience, Immigrants