ABSTRACT

This book explores Black educational leadership and the development of anti-racist, purpose-driven leadership identities. Recognizing that schools within the United States maintain racial disparities, the authors highlight Black leaders who transform school systems. With a focus on 13 leaders, this volume demonstrates how US schools exclude African American students and the impacts such exclusions have on Black school leaders. It clarifies parallel racism along the pathway to becoming teachers and school leaders, framing an educational pipeline designed to silence and mold educators into perpetrators of educational disparities. This book is designed for district administrators as well as faculty and students in Race and Ethnicity in Education, Urban Education, and Educational Leadership.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|34 pages

Black Leadership within Anti-Black Schools

chapter 2|21 pages

This Is Who We Are

chapter 3|22 pages

But I Don’t Want to be a Principal

Intersectional Racism and Black Leadership Pathways

chapter 4|28 pages

They Don’t See Our Babies

chapter 5|23 pages

They Don’t See Me

Coping and the Double Duty of Authenticity

chapter 6|34 pages

This Is How We Do

Authentic Leadership

chapter |3 pages

Epilogue

Where Are They Now?