Racial Justice beyond Credentials: The Radical Politic of a Black College Dropout

Autor/in	Mustaffa, Jalil Bishop
Titel	Racial Justice beyond Credentials: The Radical Politic of a Black College Dropout
Quelle	In: Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 54 (2022) 2, S.318-338 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Mustaffa, Jalil Bishop)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0042-0972
DOI	10.1007/s11256-021-00612-3
Schlagwörter	Social Justice; Racial Bias; Credentials; Social Stratification; Underemployment; Dropouts; College Students; African American Students; Equal Education; Low Income Students; Urban Areas; Praxis; Needs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Studienbuch; Soziale Zusammensetzung; Unterbeschäftigung; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Collegestudent; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Urban area; Stadtregion; Grundbedürfnis
Abstract	The scholarly paper explores how racial justice and college credentials have become conflated despite the higher education system being a site of anti-Blackness. The argument is advanced through analyzing critiques of higher education--stratification, lack of support, un(der)employment, and consumerism--on Kanye West's first album "The College Dropout." I argue that a focus on college dropouts or the uncredentialed allows for a more evidence-based analysis of how higher education fails to be an equalizer for poor Black urban communities and provides lessons for how to imagine a radical education praxis not based on who has a degree but on human needs and Blackness as valuable. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01