Black Liberation in Higher Education

<p>In this book on higher education the contributors make The Black Lives Matter (#BLM) their focus and engage in contemporary theorizing around the issues central to the Movement: Black Deprivation Black Resistance and Black Liberation.</p><p>The #BLM movement has brought national attention to the deadly oppression shaping the everyday lives of Black people. With the recent murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd from state-sanctioned violence by police the public outrage and racial unrest catapulted #BLM further into the mainstream. Institutional leaders (e.g. provosts department heads faculty campus administrators) particularly among white people soon began realizing that anti-Blackness could no longer be ignored making #BLM the most significant social movement of our time. </p><p>The chapters included in this volume cover topics such as white institutional space and the experiences of Black administrators; a Black transnational ethic of Black Lives Matter; depictions of #BLM in the media; racially liberatory pedagogy; campus rebellions and classrooms as sites for Black liberation; Black women's labor and intersectional interventions; and Black liberation research. The considerations for research and practice presented are intended to assist institutional leaders policy-makers transdisciplinary researchers and others outside higher education to dismantle anti-Blackness and create supportive mechanisms that benefit Black people especially those working learning and serving in higher education. </p><p>The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of <i>International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.</i></p>