ABSTRACT

This article insists on a reframe of mourning, away from a period of sadness or weeping alone, to a vision of its merits for discovering and unlocking possibility in Black Education. For example, mourning might be understood as involuntarily surrendered time necessary to properly grieve, concede, and embrace Black people’s subject position in the US sociopolitical context. Turning towards mourning, the dark moments that urge it and the dark(er) moments that it may produce, is argued as a launch pad to more fully understanding the depth and reach of Black people’s possibility. To make such an argument the author contemplates how mourning, and subsequent meditations on possibility, might have informed the activism of leaders in the Black radical tradition who urgently insisted that Black people’s human dignity be recognized and properly acknowledged. The article concludes with discussion of the significance of possibility to advance equity and excellence in education.

摘要

本文坚持以悲哀为重，从一段悲伤或哭泣的经历，到其在黑人教育中发现和释放可能性的优点的愿景。例如，哀悼可能被理解为在美国的社会政治背景下，适当地悲伤，屈服和接受黑人的主体地位所必需的非自愿放弃的时间。转向哀悼，催促它的黑暗时刻和它可能产生的黑暗时刻被认为是更充分地了解黑人可能性的深度和影响力的发射台。为了提出这样的论点，作者考虑了哀悼以及随后对可能性的沉思如何使黑人激进传统的领导人激进地行动起来，这些领导人迫切要求承认并适当承认黑人的人格尊严。本文最后讨论了促进平等和追求卓越教育的可能性的重要性。