Black Space: Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower
In Black Space,
Sherry L. Deckman takes us into the lives of the members of the Kuumba
Singers, a Black student organization at Harvard with racially diverse
members, and a self-proclaimed safe space for anyone but particularly
Black students. Uniquely focusing on Black students in an elite space
where they are the majority, Deckman provides a case study in how
colleges and universities might reimagine safe spaces. This work
illuminates ways administrators, faculty, student affairs staff, and
indeed, students themselves, might productively address issues of
difference and anti-Blackness for the purpose of fostering critically
inclusive campus environments.
Radical Care: Leading for Justice in Urban Schools
Educators often invoke the term care
to describe why they entered the field and what compels them to
continue. This book argues that care, as typically described and
enacted, is not sufficient for leading schools, particularly those
serving Black and Latinx children. Instead, school leaders need to
embrace radical care. Drawing from 20 years of researching and
working in New York City public schools, Rosa Rivera-McCutchen outlines
the five components of radical care: adopting an antiracist stance,
cultivating authentic relationships, believing in students’ and
teachers’ capacity for excellence, leveraging power strategically, and
embracing a spirit of radical hope.