Responses to "Against the Dark: Antiblackness in Education Policy and Discourse" by Jamie Karen https://padlet.com/jsk162/jxlfbe4i212chbv6 PLEASE WRITE YOUR NAME. Add a quote or response about what you have learned in reading this article. Please respond to at least one person. We will discuss what we've written. -- abt 4 minutes to write and respond, 6 minutes to discuss. en-us 2022-02-10 15:16:19 UTC 2022-02-10 23:43:20 UTC hello@padlet.com Chris Muchow https://padlet.com/jsk162/jxlfbe4i212chbv6/wish/2041350840 “Afro-pessimism theorizes that Black people exist in a structurally antagonistic relationship with humanity. That is, the very technologies and imaginations that allow a social recognition of the humanness of others systematically exclude this possibility for the Black. The Black cannot be human, is not simply an Other but is other than human”]]> 2022-02-10 23:38:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jsk162/jxlfbe4i212chbv6/wish/2041350840 Courtney Todaro https://padlet.com/jsk162/jxlfbe4i212chbv6/wish/2041351578  "Because racial exclusion has become part and parcel of African American political identity since slavery, it cannot simply be willed or wished away. This protracted experience of disillusionment, mourning, and yearning is in fact the basis of African American civic estrangement. Its lingering is not just a haunting of the past but is also a reminder of the present-day racial inequities that keep African American citizens in an indeterminate, unassimilable state as a racialized ‘Other.’ While the affect of racial melancholia was bred in the dyad of slavery and democracy, it persists because of the paradox of legal citizenship and civic estrangement. "]]> 2022-02-10 23:39:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jsk162/jxlfbe4i212chbv6/wish/2041351578 Dharma Wong dxw684 https://padlet.com/jsk162/jxlfbe4i212chbv6/wish/2041351632 School desegregation is perhaps the most
prominent education policy of the past century in which Black people have been positioned as problem. ]]> 2022-02-10 23:39:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jsk162/jxlfbe4i212chbv6/wish/2041351632 Stephanie rapillard https://padlet.com/jsk162/jxlfbe4i212chbv6/wish/2041352233 There is no clear historical moment in which there was a break between slavery and acknowledgement of Black citizenship and Human-ness; nor is there any indication of a clear disruption of the technologies of violence—that is, the institutional structures and social processes—that maintain Black subjugation.]]> 2022-02-10 23:39:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jsk162/jxlfbe4i212chbv6/wish/2041352233 Rachel N. Black is a synonym (however imperfect) of African American and replaces previous terms like Negro and Colored, which were also eventually capitalized, after years of struggle against media that resisted recognition of Black people as an actual political group within civil society (Tharps, 2014, November 18). White is not capitalized in my work because it is nothing but a social construct, and does not describe a group with a sense of common experiences or kinship outside of acts of colonization and terror. Thus, white is employed almost solely as a negation of others https://padlet.com/jsk162/jxlfbe4i212chbv6/wish/2041352569


]]> 2022-02-10 23:40:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jsk162/jxlfbe4i212chbv6/wish/2041352569 Hannah Eiger "these are all policies in which the Black is positioned on the bottom, and as much as one might wring one’s hands about it all, and pursue various interven- tions, radical improvements are impossible with- out a broader, radical shift in the racial order." hge4 https://padlet.com/jsk162/jxlfbe4i212chbv6/wish/2041353071 2022-02-10 23:40:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jsk162/jxlfbe4i212chbv6/wish/2041353071 liliana bravo https://padlet.com/jsk162/jxlfbe4i212chbv6/wish/2041353690 Black lives are still imperiled and devalued by a racial calculus and a political arithmetic that were entrenched centuries ago. This is the afterlife of slavery—skewed life chances, limited access to health and education, premature death, incarceration, and impoverishment. I, too, am
the afterlife of slavery.]]> 2022-02-10 23:41:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jsk162/jxlfbe4i212chbv6/wish/2041353690 Rachael Bermudez https://padlet.com/jsk162/jxlfbe4i212chbv6/wish/2041353756 What does it mean to suggest that education policy is a site of antiblackness? Fundamentally, it is an acknowledgment of the long history of Black struggle for educational opportunity, which is to say a struggle against what has always been (and continues to be) a struggle against specific anti-Black ideologies, discourses, representations, (mal)distribution of material resources, and physical and psychic assaults on Black bodies in schools.]]> 2022-02-10 23:41:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jsk162/jxlfbe4i212chbv6/wish/2041353756 Welly https://padlet.com/jsk162/jxlfbe4i212chbv6/wish/2041355306 To the extent that there is ample evidence of the
civic estrangement of Black people—their
exclusion from the public sphere—one can
theorize that the Black is still socially positioned
as the slave, as difficult as it may be to use this
frame to understand contemporary “race
relations.”.....For
Afro-pessimists, the Black is not only misrecognized, but unrecognizable as human, and therefore there is no social or political relationship to
be fostered or restored. ]]> 2022-02-10 23:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jsk162/jxlfbe4i212chbv6/wish/2041355306