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Language: English
We STILL be lovin’ Black children.
Not sometimes.
Not conditionally.
Not when it is convenient.
We loved them in the past.
We love them now.
We will love them in the future.
In this expanded second edition, We (Still) Be Lovin’ Black Children:
African
Diaspora Literacy, A Divine Ancestral Charge, leading scholars, educators, and community leaders deepen the call to center African Diaspora Literacy as a foundation for healing, identity, and collective thriving. Across classrooms, homes, and communities in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean, contributors offer practical strategies, critical questions, cultural frameworks, and affirming activities that protect Black children’s spirits while nurturing their brilliance.
At a time when Black histories are distorted, erased, or politicized, this book insists on truth-telling rooted in love. Grounded in African Indigenous Knowledge, Adinkra principles, intergenerational wisdom, and Pro-Black educational practices, authors demonstrate how literacy about the African diaspora is essential.
This edition includes new chapters, updated chapters, expanded global perspectives, new resources for families and educators, and timely guidance for confronting anti-Blackness in schools, media, and public discourse.
To love Black children is to teach them who they are.
To teach them who they are is to protect their souls and spirits.
To protect their souls and spirits is to secure our collective future.
This is a love book.
This is a liberation book.
This is an urgent book.
Perfect for courses such as: Foundations of Education; Black Education; African Studies; African American Studies; Introduction to Early Childhood Education;
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction—We (Still) Be Lovin’ Black Children
Part I— Black Folks in the United States
1. Open Love Letter to Black Families and
Communities
Kamania Wynter-Hoyte and Gloria Swindler Boutte
2. Pro-Blackness: What It Looks Like and What It Is
Gloria Swindler Boutte, Jarvais J. Jackson, George L. Johnson, Janice Baines, and Nicole Y. Strange-Martin
3. We Be Lovin Black History: Eight Best Teaching Practices Around Black History Education
LaGarrett J. King, Dawnavyn James, Abigail Henry, Gregory Simmons, and Daphanie Bibbs
4. My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: What Are
We Doing to “Serve the Present Age”?
Joyce E. King
5. What the Children We Be Lovin’ Have To Say
Preston King, Jaliyah S. Ware, and Janiyah S. Ware
6. Say It Loud—I’m Black and I’m Proud: Beauty, Brilliance, and Belonging in Our Homes, Classrooms, and Communities
Jarvais J. Jackson, Saudah N. Collins, Janice Baines, and Valente’ Gibson
7. Great Rising: Activities to Inspire Black
Teens and Youth
Shaquetta Moultrie, Antoinette Gibson, and Julia Dawson
8. Preparing Black Children to Identify and
Confront Racism in Books, Media, and Other
Texts: Critical Questions
Meir Muller
9. Each One, Teach One: Reflections and Lessons on Mentoring Young Men of Color
Ricardo O. Neal and Kindel Turner Nash
10. We Be Family
Kayla Hostetler and Jamon Dubose
11. The Crown on Your Head: Teaching African Diaspora Literacy Through Hair
Shayla Calhoun and Joy Howard
12. Teaching Our Children About Blackness
in the World
Lasana D. Kazembe, Leslie K. Etienne, and Tambra O. Jackson
Part II—Black Folks All Over the World
13. African Diaspora Literacy in Jamaica
and the Wider Caribbean
Dr. Clement T. M. Lambert
14. Lessons From Africa
Asangha Ngufor Muki, Samuel Ntewusu, Moepeola Omoegun, and Berte Van Wyk
15. We Be Schoolin’. We Be Schooled: Learning Across Educator Partnerships with Youth Voices at the Center
Safi Darden, Melody Kuziwa Jombe, Wahida Sussex and Ayanna Page
16. Resources
LaGarrett J. King, Gloria Swindler Boutte, Joyce E. King, George L. Johnson, Jr., and Jarvais J. Jackson
Appendix A: Dimensions of African American Culture
Appendix B: Ten Principles for Black Education and Socialization
About the Authors
Index
NOTE: Table of Contents subject to change up until publication date.