Black Participatory Research

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction. Black Bridges, Troubled Waters, and the Search for Solid Ground: The People, the Problems, and Educational Justice

   1. Introduction. Black Bridges, Troubled Waters, and the Search for Solid Ground: The People, the Problems, and Educational Justice

      • Decoteau J. Irby, Elizabeth R. Drame

      Pages 1-19

3. Dark Waters: Navigating the Ripple Effects of Education Reform on Black Children in New Orleans

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Striving toward Collective Solutions in Race-Conscious New Orleans

      • Elizabeth R. Drame

      Pages 23-34

   3. Nothing about Us, without Us (Nihil de Nobis, Sine Nobis)

      • Deirdre Johnson-Burel

      Pages 35-53

   4. Crisscross Applesauce: Reflections on Intertwined Identities

      • Elizabeth R. Drame

      Pages 55-68

4. All-Out War: Fighting against the White Appropriation of Jailed Wisdom

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. Working with Adult Non-Completers to Address the School Dropout Problem

      • Decoteau J. Irby

      Pages 71-85

   3. Commitment, Love, and Responsibility Are Key

      • Gerald Bolling

      Pages 87-103

   4. Be Catty and Piss on Your Work: A Cautionary Tale of Researching while Black

      • Lynnette Mawhinney

      Pages 105-121

5. Eradicating the Waste: Challenging Western Education Dominance in Postcolonial West Africa

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. Navigating Age, Gender, and Cultural Crashes and Clashes in a Youth-Led PAR Project in West Africa

      • Dominique Duval-Diop

      Pages 125-140

   3. Littering, Planting, and Harvesting: Imagining Going Green in the Sands of Senegal

      • Fernie Diop, Ndeye Mama Diop, Soukeyna Abbott

      Pages 141-157

   4. Unveiling the Bias Within: The Power of a Single Narrative to Oppress the P in Participatory

      • Dominique Duval-Diop

      Pages 159-178

6. Conclusion

   1. Conclusion

      • Decoteau J. Irby, Elizabeth R. Drame

      Pages 179-189

7. Back Matter

   Pages 191-205

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Black Participatory Research explores research partnerships that disrupt inequality, create change, and empower racially marginalized communities. Through presenting a series of co-reflections from professional and community researchers in different locations, this book explores the conflicts and tensions that emerge when professional interests, class and socio-economic statuses, age, geography, and cultural and language differences emerge alongside racial identity as central ways of seeing and being ourselves. Through the investigations of black researchers who collaborated in participatory research projects in post-Katrina New Orleans, USA the greater Philadelphia–New Jersey-Delaware region in the northeastern USA, and Senegal, West Africa, this book offers candid reflections of how shared identity, experiences, and differences shape the nature and process of participatory research.

• Black communities
• Black feminism
• Community-based research
• Critical race theory
• Critical reflexivity
• Participatory action research
• Participatory research
• Strategic essentialism
• education
• education reform
• European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)
• gender
• identity
• methods
• research
• research methods
• school

Elizabeth R. Drame is Associate Professor in the Department of Exceptional Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.

Decoteau J. Irby is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Education, USA

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