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Author: Marva McClean
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition: New edition
Weight: 0.249kg
ISBN: 9781433155475
ISBN 10: 1433155478
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 25 April 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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From the Middle Passage to Black Lives Matter invites readers to re-examine the history of European discovery and colonization told from outside of the colonial gaze. Dr Marva McClean overcomes the erasing of truth telling, which has censored our participation and influence within history as people of colour, via vivid emotional and visual discourse in storytelling that at times can best be described as poetry. Readers are invited back to the time of Nanny of the Maroons, an archetypal figure connecting resistance movements across the Black Atlantic to give birth centuries later to the Civil Rights Movement and now Black Lives Matter as part of her legacy. Dr McClean takes us on a journey running throughout the centuries, recounting her own historical consciousness in confronting social inequities across the globe in search of our common human dignity. She makes an urgent call to educators to acknowledge students' funds of knowledge in creating a cultural space within the curriculum that embraces their cultural heroes/heroines in the awareness of their own empowerment, in much the same way feminist freedom fighter Queen Nanny of the Maroons lighted the path of social justice for the author as a young woman growing up in Jamaica. It is a call we must heed. Dr Marcus Woolombi Waters Program Director, Creative & Professional Writing Griffith University - Gold Coast, Australia.
"""From the Middle Passage to Black Lives Matter invites readers to re-examine the history of European discovery and colonization told from out-side of the colonial gaze. Marva McClean overcomes the erasure of truth telling, which has cen-sored our participation and influence within history as people of color, via vivid emotional and visual discourse in storytelling that at times can best be described as poetry. Readers are invited back to the time of Nanny of the Maroons, an archetypal figure connecting resistance movements across the Black Atlantic to give birth centuries later to the Civil Rights Movement and now Black Lives Matter as part of her legacy. “Marva McClean takes us on a journey running throughout the centuries, recounting her own his-torical consciousness in confronting social inequities across the globe in search of our common human dignity. She makes an urgent call to educators to acknowledge students’ funds of knowledge in creating a cultural space within the curriculum that embraces their cultural he-roes/heroines in the awareness of their own empowerment, in much the same way feminist free-dom fighter Queen Nanny of the Maroons lighted the path of social justice for the author as a young woman growing up in Jamaica. It is a call we must heed.” Marcus Woolombi Waters, Program Director, Creative and Professional Writing, Griffith Uni-versity – Gold Coast, Australia"
Author Information
Marva McClean is a public school educator and teacher-researcher who utilizes a social justice platform to engage teachers and students in collaborative inquiry that creates spaces of empowerment and transformation. Dr. McClean’s research focuses on social justice and equity in education, the sociology of middle school, transnationalism and post-colonial studies, and Indigenous/Aboriginal cultures and Marronage. She engages in collaborative inquiry with international scholars to explore Indigeneity across the globe and create strategies to build the historical consciousness of youth in schools. She advocates for the conscientization of curriculum and pedagogy to foster students’ ability to become agents of change.
