Black Youth Yearn For Black Teachers To Disrupt The Daily Silencing Of Their Experiences
The annual Black History month school assemblies is fading away with February. The 2022 theme picked by the Canadian government for Black History Month, “February and Forever: Celebrating Black History today and every day,” itself is an admission that Black history month is currently a performative annual ritual.
Yet the realities raised in Black History month assemblies are year-long priorities requiring proactive enduring action.
Black students and families continue to urgently express concerns about something education scholar George Dei documented over 25 years ago: the marginalization of Black youth in schools, absences of Black and African Canadian history and an absence of Black teachers in the classroom.
My research drew from data from a study that used Afrocentric approaches to...