We Be Lovin' Black Children: Learning to Be Literate about the African Diaspora - Paperback

Boutte, Gloria Swindler: - Dr. Gloria Swindler Boutte is a Carolina Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina. For more than three decades, Dr. Boutte's scholarship, teaching, and service have focused on equity pedagogies. She is the author/editor of four books: African Diaspora Literacy: The Heart of Transformation in K-12 Schools and Teacher Education (2019 AESA Critics Choice Award); Educating African American Students: And how are the children; Resounding Voices: School Experiences of People From Diverse Ethnic Backgrounds; and Multicultural Education: Raising Consciousness. She has received millions of dollars in grants and has more than 90 publications. Dr. Boutte has presented nationally and internationally on equity issues and has received prestigious Fulbright Scholar and Fulbright Specialist awards. Dr. Boutte is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for the Education and Equity of African American Students (CEEAAS). She has presented and/or served as a visiting scholar internationally in every continent except Antarctica. Dr. Boutte and Dr. George Lee Johnson, Jr. are the authors of the Drs. Diaspora curriculum.King, Joyce Elaine: - Joyce Elaine King holds the Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership at Georgia State University and affiliated faculty status in the African American Studies Department. Her publications focus on Black Studies curriculum theorizing and Black education research and policy. She is a past president of the American Educational Research Association.Johnson, George Lee: - Dr. George Lee Johnson, Jr. is a Professor and Academic Program Coordinator of Special Education at South Carolina State University. For more than two decades, Dr. Johnson's scholarship, teaching and service has focused on equity pedagogies, teaching for social justice and critical race theory in education with an emphasis on culturally and linguistically diverse students. He has taught and presented nationally and internationally on special education, diversity, and disproportionality, community, and equity issues. Dr. Johnson has numerous publications and received $300,000 in grants and has presented his work in Nigeria, Australia, New Zealand, England, Botswana, South Africa, and Sierra Leone.
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