“If Justice Is Our Objective”: Diaspora Literacy,Heritage Knowledge,and the Praxis of Critical Studyin’ for Human Freedom 1

Anderson S. E. (1995). The Black Holocaust for beginners. New York: Writers & Readers.

Aoishima Research Institute. (2005). Cultural literacy and the restoration of traditional values among youth. Retrieved September 30, 2005 from http://www.aoishima-research.com/custom.em?pid=206198.

Australian professor sparks racial flap. (2005, August 12). Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A—42.

Bailey A. C. (2005). African voices of the Atlantic slave trade: Beyond the silence and the shame. Boston: Beacon.

Baldwin J. (1955). Notes of a native son. Boston: Beacon Press.

Baldwin J. (1996). A talk to teachers. In Ayers W. , and Ford P. (Eds.), City kids, city teachers: Reports from the front row (pp. 219—227). New York: The New Press.

Banks J. A. (2006). Democracy, diversity and social justice: Educating citizens for the public interest in a global age. In Ladson-Billings G. , and Tate W.F. (Eds.), Education and research in the public interest (pp. 141—167). New York: Teachers College Press.

Brown C. S. (Ed.). (1968). Ready from within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement: A personal narrative. Navarro, CA: Wild Tree Press.

Busia A. (1989). What is your nation? Reconstructing Africa and her diaspora through Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow. In and and Wall C. (Ed.), Changing our own words (pp. 196—211). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Carney J. A. (2001). Black rice: The African origins of rice cultivation in the Americas. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Clark V. (1991). Developing diaspora literacy and marasa consciousness. In and and Spillers H. (Ed.), Comparative American identities (pp. 41—61). New York: Routledge.

Clarke J. H. (1994). Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan holocaust: Slavery and the rise of European capitalism. Brooklyn, NY: A & B Publishers Group.

Cone J. H. (1972). The spirituals and the blues: An interpretation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Davidson B. (1961). Black mother. Boston: Little Brown.

Douglass F. (1963). Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass: An American slave. Garden City, NY: Dolphin Books.

Drake S. C. (1977). The redemption of Africa and Black religion. Chicago: Third World Press.

Dubey M. (1994). Black women novelists and the nationalist aesthetic. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press.

Du Bois W.E.B. (1909/2001). John Brown. New York: The Modern Library.

Ellison R. (1986). What would America be like without Blacks? In and and Ellison R. (Ed.), Going to the territory: Essays by Ralph Ellison (pp. 104—112). New York: Random House.

Farrow A. , Lang J. , and Frank J. (2005). Complicity: How the North promoted, prolonged and profited from slavery. New York: Ballantine.

Fisher M. (2003). Open mics and open minds: Spoken word poetry in African diaspora participatory literacy communities. Harvard Educational Review, 73(3), 362—389.

Fitzpatrick E. (2002). History's memory: Writing America's past, 1880–1980. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Freire P. (1971). Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York: Herder and Herder.

Flores W. V. , and Benmayor R. (1997). Latino cultural citizenship: Claiming identity, space and rights. Boston: Beacon Press.

George N. (1998). On white Negroes. In and and Roediger D. (Ed.), Black on White: Black writers on what it means to be white (pp. 225—232). New York: Schocken Books.

Glenn D. (2003). Minority students with complex beliefs about ethnic identity are found to do better in school. Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved on June 2, 2003, from http://chronicle.com/daily/2003/06/200306020ln.htm

Gormley M. (2005, August 11). Legislature again delves into racism lessons in schools. Newsday, p. 1.

Graham S. (1947). There once was a slave: The heroic story of Frederick Douglass. New York: Julian Messner.

hooks b . (1998). Representations of whiteness in the Black imagination. In and and Roediger D. (Ed.), Black on white: Black writers on what it means to be white (pp. 38—53). New York: Schocken Books.

Horton M. (1990). The long haul: Myles Horton, an autobiography. New York: Doubleday.

James C. L. R. (1970). The Atlantic slave trade and slavery: Some interpretations of their significance in the development of the United States and the Western world. In Williams J.A. , and Harris C.F. (Eds.), Amistad 1 (pp. 119—164). New York: Vintage Books.

Jensen R. (2005). The heart of whiteness: Confronting race, racism, and white privilege. San Francisco: City Lights.

Killens J. O. (1971). The Black writer vis-à-vis his country. In and and Gayle A. Jr. (Ed.), The Black aesthetic (pp. 378—398). New York: Doubleday.

Kilminster R. (1979). Praxis and method: A sociological dialogue with Lukács, Gramsci and the early Frankfurt School. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

King J. E. (1990). Dysconscious racism: Ideology, identity, and the mis-education of teachers. Journal of Negro Education, 60(2), 133—146.

King J. E. (1992). Diaspora literacy and consciousness in the struggle against mis-education in the Black community. Journal of Negro Education, 61(3), 317—338.

King J. E. (1994). The purpose of schooling for African American children: Including cultural knowledge. In Hollins E.R. , King J.E. , and Hayman W.C. (Eds.), Teaching diverse populations: Formulating a knowledge base (pp. 25—44). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

King J. E. (1995a). Culture-centered knowledge: Black studies, curriculum transformation and social action. In Banks J.A. , and Banks C.M. (Eds.), The handbook of research on multicultural education (pp. 265—290). New York: Macmillan.

King J. E. (1995b). Race and education: In what ways does race affect the educational process? In Kinchloe J.L. , and Steinberg S.R. (Eds.), Thirteen questions: Reframing education's conversation (pp. 159—179). New York: Peter Lang Publishers.

King J. E. (1997). Thank you for opening our minds: On praxis, transmutation and Black Studies in teacher development. In King J.E. , Hollins E.R. , and Hayman W.C. (Eds.), Preparing teachers for cultural diversity (pp. 156—169). New York: Teachers College Press.

King J. E. (2000). A moral choice. Teaching Tolerance Magazine, 18, 14—15.

King J. E. (2004). Cultural knowledge. In Goodwin S. , and Swartz E. (Eds.), Teaching children of color: Seven constructs of effective teaching in urban schools (pp. 53—61). Rochester: RTA Press.

King J. E. (Ed.). (2005). Black education: A transformative research and action agenda for the new century. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

King J. E. (2006). Perceiving reality in a new way: Rethinking the Black/White duality of our times. In and and Bogues A. (Ed.), Caribbean reasonings: After Man toward the human. Critical essays on Sylvia Wynter (pp. 25—56). Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers.

Leonardo Z. (2002). The souls of White folk: Critical pedagogy, whiteness, and globalization discourse. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 5(1), 29—50.

Lester J. (2005). Day of tears. New York: Hyperion Books.

Loewen J. W. (Ed.). (2005). Lies my teacher told me: Everything your American history textbook got wrong (2nd ed.). New York: The New Press.

Lott E. (1993). Love and theft: Blackface minstrelsy and the American working class. New York: Oxford University Press.

Mays B. (1967). Born to rebel: An autobiography. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Munford C. J. (2001). Race and civilization: Rebirth of Black centrality. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.

Muwakkil S. (2005, August 1). So very sorry. In These Times, p. 13.

Payne C. M. (2000). Education for activism: Mississippi's Freedom Schools in the 1960s. In Ayers W. , Klonsky M. , and Lyon G. (Eds.), A simple justice: The challenge of small schools (pp. 67—77). New York: Teachers College Press.

Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896).

Ransby B. (2003). Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A radical democratic vision. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Rethinking Schools. (Winter 2001/2002). Resources for 9/11. Retrieved on May 26, 2006 from http://www.rethinkingschools.org/special_reports/sept11/16_02/reso162.shtml

Reynolds D. (2005). John Brown, abolitionist: The man who killed slavery, sparked the Civil War and seeded civil rights. New York: Knopf.

Robinson R. (2000). The debt: What America owes to Blacks. New York: Dutton.

Roediger D. (1998). Black on white: Black writers on what it means to be white. New York: Schocken Books.

“Sixto Valencia Burgos” (2005). CNN.com. Retrieved on July 24, 2005 from http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/07/05/mexico.stamps.reut/

Smitherman G. (1986). Talkin and testifiyin: The language of Black America. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Weinburg S. (1991). On the reading of historical texts: Notes on the breach between school and academy. American Educational Research Journal, 28(3), 495—519.

White T. D. , with Asfaw B. , DeGusta D. , Gilbert H. , Richards G. D. , Swua G. , and Howell F. C. (2003, June 12). Pleistocene homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Letter to Nature, 423, 742—747.

Wood P. H. (2003). Slave labor camps in early America: Overcoming denial and discovering the Gulag. In Payne C. , and Green A. (Eds.), Time longer than rope: A century of African American activism, 1850–1950 (pp. 17—36). New York: New York University Press.

Woods C. (1998). Development arrested: The blues and plantation power in the Mississippi Delta. London: Verso.

Woodson C. G. (1933). The miseducation of the Negro. Washington, DC: Associated Publishers.

Wynter S. (1984). The ceremony must be found: After humanism. Boundary 2, 12(3), 19—70.

Wynter S. (1989, May). Beyond the word of Man: Glissant and the new discourse of the Antilles. World Literature Today, 63(4), 637—647.

Wynter S. (1992). Rethinking “Aesthetics”: Notes toward a deciphering practice. In and and Cham M. (Ed.), Ex-iles: Essays on Caribbean cinema (pp. 237—279). Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.

Wynter S. (1997). Alterity. In Grant C. , and Ladson-Billings G. (Eds.), Dictionary of multicultural education (pp. 13—14). New York: Oryx.

Wynter S. (2006). On how we mistook the map for the territory and re-imprisoned ourselves in our unbearable wrongness of being, of désêtre. In Gordon L. , and Gordon J.A. (Eds.), Not only the master's tools: African-American studies in theory and practice (pp. 107—169). Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.