Becoming an Antiracist School Leader
Dare to Be Real
Patrick A. Duffy (Author)
9780807767863
Paperback / softback, published 22 September 2023
256 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.272 kg
Eradicating systemic racism in our schools requires a systemic response. This book describes an adaptive framework that includes ten tenets for developing structural and curricular antiracist leadership. In three parts, school leaders are asked to: Know Themselves through self-reflection and racial autobiography; Distinguish Knowledge From Foolishness through critical race ethnography and an exploration of racial identity development; and Build for Eternity by using a model for student-centered antiracist leadership development. Providing a combination of scholarly and practical examples, readers will learn how to foster academic success, cultural proficiency, and critical consciousness in all learners. The text features a comprehensive, three-year critical ethnographic study of a Midwestern high school and its ups and downs with antiracist leadership. This resource offers both a vision and everyday guidance to any educator committed to an antiracist democracy, educational love, student empowerment, leadership development, liberatory teaching and learning, and racial equity.
Book Features:
- Introduces a ten-point model for antiracist leadership development with practical applications for the leaders of systems, schools, and student groups.
- Describes an adaptive framework for approaching antiracist school leadership through reflective racial autobiography, critical ethnographic research, and student-centered leadership development.
- Examines a high school attempting to enact antiracist leadership, including analysis of the environment through a critical race theory lens and a breakdown of interviews with 30 leaders through the lens of their racial identity development.
- Contains ten personal narratives from a diverse group of antiracist leaders who detail a rich tapestry of a high-functioning school district in St. Louis Park, MN.
- Contents (Tentative)
- Series Foreword
- Introduction
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1. My Racial Autobiography
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2. Historical and Antiracist School Leadership Perspectives
- A Very Brief History of Antiracism in the United States
- A Very Brief History of AntiRacism in Public Education
- Perspectives: Racial Identity
- Identity Development and White People
- Identity Development for People of Color
- Identity Development for Multiracial People
- Theoretical Base: Critical Race Theory
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3. Engaging in Antiracist Leadership
- Safe and Sacred Space
- Staff Collaboration
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4. Critical Race Theory at Midwest High School
- Interest Convergence
- Whiteness as Property
- Critique of Liberalism
- Permanence of Racism
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5. Racial Identity Development at Midwest High School
- White Racial Identity
- Identity Development for People of Color
- Conclusion
- 6. Tenets for Sustaining Antiracist School Leadership
- Systemic Implementation
- Support from the Top
- Common Language and Protocol
- Identity Development
- 7. The Story: A Gilded Age of Anti-Racism
- Prologue: Philadelphia
- Year One
- Year Two
- Year Three
- Epilogue: New Orleans
- Deepening Antiracist Leadership
- Shared Experiences
- Active Anti-Racist Leadership
- Active Anti-Racist Leadership
- Community/Family Engagement
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- References
549
- Index
570
- About the Author
571
