ABSTRACT
This chapter calls for educators to imagine Black people and Black lives in the future. To create futures that center the humanity of Black people, society must operate in the radical imagination, practice radical love as an action-oriented process, and operate from the Black joy zone. Therefore, it is time for English teachers and teacher educators to bring the humanness and the humanity of Black children and youth to the forefront of their curriculum, pedagogy, methods, and research practices. The author argues that it is time for us (English teachers and teacher educators) to continue to create humanizing curricula, pedagogies, methods, and research practices that subvert oppressive ELA and literacy curricula and that showcase the beauty of Blackness.
