ABSTRACT

Neoliberal education reforms in schools serving sizeable Black populations throughout the United States have proliferated and are being transported to Black educational contexts abroad. Building on a framework of Coloniality, antiBlackness and a review of Black colonial education this relational analysis argues that contemporary neoliberal education reforms not only resemble the early 20th century movement to spread Black industrial education from the American South to regions of the global South- including regions of West, South and East Africa but also reproduce logics of antiBlack coloniality. This framework is applied to two cases: the chartering of schools in New Orleans Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the 2016 decision to privatize the entire school system in Liberia. Far from ‘unlikely’ this article argues that the application of market-based reforms to schools in the Black Souths (the ‘urban’ ghettos of the United States as well as the ‘underdeveloped’ global South) is a continuation of 20^th century colonial education interventions and the persistent claim of Blackness as always in crisis.

摘要

在为美国大量黑人人口服务的学校中，新自由主义教育改革已经扩散开来，并正在被转移到国外的黑人教育环境中。基于殖民性、反黑人性和对黑人殖民教育的回顾，这一关系分析认为，当代新自由主义教育改革不仅类似于 20 世纪初将黑人工业教育从美国南部传播到全球南部地区的运动西非、南非和东非，但也再现了反黑人殖民主义的逻辑。该框架适用于两个案例：2005 年卡特里娜飓风后路易斯安那州新奥尔良的学校特许经营，以及 2016 年利比里亚整个学校系统私有化的决定。^世纪的殖民教育干预和黑人的持续主张一如既往地处于危机之中。