Pro-Blackness in Early Childhood Education

Gloria Swindler Boutte is associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion and Carolina Distinguished Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of South Carolina.Jarvais J. Jackson is an assistant professor of elementary and special education at Georgia Southern University.Saudah N. Collins is an African Studies teacher at Jackson Creek Elementary and adjunct instructor at the University of South Carolina.Janice R. Baines is a clinical instructor of early childhood education at the University of South Carolina.Anthony Broughton is associate dean of the College of Education and associate professor at Alabama State University.George Lee Johnson Jr. is acting department chair of education and professor of special education at South Carolina State University.

• ContentsForeword Joyce E. King  viiPrelude—"Pro-Black . . . Yes!" A Poem by Adrian Green  xiiiIntroduction  1Gloria Swindler Boutte, Jarvais J. Jackson, Saudah N. Collins, Janice R. Baines, George Lee Johnson, and Anthony Broughton1.  Pro-Blackness in Early Childhood Education  5Gloria Swindler Boutte2.  Amplifying Pro-Black Perspectives in Child Development: The Children Will Be Well  25Anthony Broughton and Gloria Swindler Boutte3.  Drs. Diaspora Curriculum: Cultural Continuity From the Nile to the Niger to Rivers in the United States  51Gloria Swindler Boutte and George Lee Johnson4.  I'll Take You There: Envisioning and Sustaining African Diasporic Educational Spaces  71Jarvais J. Jackson5.  Africanizing the Early Childhood Curriculum: Exploring Pro-Blackness Through African Diaspora Literacy  89Saudah N. Collins6.  Pro-Blackness as a Loving Antidote in Early Childhood Classrooms  109Janice R. Baines7.  African American Language (AAL): It's the Language for Me  125Gloria Swindler Boutte8.  What's Up, Fam (Family)?  133Saudah N. Collins and Jarvais J. Jackson9.  Reimagining Classroom "Management" Using Pro-Black and Restorative Approaches  149Jarvais J. JacksonEndnotes  173References  175Index  185About the Authors  193