Black Education in the US: Telling/Understanding Chavone’s Story with Integrity and Strength

Abstract

“Reality is known when based in the historical roots of Black feminist thought, embodying a distinguishable difference in cultural standpoint, located in the intersection/overlap of the culturally constructed socializations of race, gender, and other identities and the historical and contemporary contexts of oppressions and resistance for African-American women” Cynthia Dillard (2000) definition of endarkend feminist epistemology.

Keywords

• black education
• autoethnography
• black feminist thought
• k-12
• engineering education research