Free space is valuable space: lessons from Chocolate Cities Academic Article

abstract

• 2018, 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In our reading of Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life as a work of liberation sociology, we discuss contributions to Black critical thought and praxis this book uniquely makes. Hunter and Robinson craft a Black-owned analytical approach by rezoning the United States map into a charting of African American social and cultural milestones. To apply the re-centering methodological and theoretical innovations this book encourages, we extend its themes to the contested racialized terrains of literacy and education in the US. One contemporary response to systemic educational racism, Black homeschooling, is reconceptualized as a resistance movement. Inspired by the provocative work Hunter and Robinson have done, we situate the Black homeschooling within the tradition of critical Black thought, and its enduring emancipatory warrant.

authors

• Feagin, Joe

published proceedings

• ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES

author list (cited authors)

• Jennings, C., & Feagin, J. R.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• Jennings, Carly||Feagin, Joe R

publication date

• February 2019

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES  Journal

keywords

• Afrocentric
• Black Communities
• Black Homeschooling

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/01419870.2019.1536277

start page

• 431

end page

• 438

volume

• 42

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2019.1536277

user-defined tag

• 4 Quality Education