Seminar: Seeking a Black Historical Consciousness in Education

In this talk, I explore a need for society, in an effort to erase anti-Black philosophies in education, to engage with Black historical consciousness. Taking Steve Biko concept of Black consciousness and the theoretical framing of historical consciousness (mostly by Western thinkers), Black historical consciousness seeks to examine how people not only understand Black history but also, and maybe more prominent, what it means to be Black in a historic sense. Stated another way, Black history, within official school curricular spaces, typically presents a limited view of Black history and these narratives usually meet the criteria of liberal multiculturalism, where the narratives presented are safe and sanitized, usually ignoring more critical and racial analysis of Black history. Rarely are Black histories told from multiple Black perspectives, instead these narratives are only told if the history is deemed important within White epistemic historical frameworks. As our global society begins to ask, yet again, how we can end racism, the answer maybe to disassociate oneself with anti-black histories that prevent us to see Black people as total humans.

A Seminar organised by iHuman and Centre for Critical Psychology and Education, School of Education at the University of Sheffield

23rd October 2018 and time is 12:30–1:15pm with the lecture 1:30pm-3pm.

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