The Conscious Cultural Worker: Counter-Narratives of Black Women Artivists as Radical Educators

The Conscious Cultural Worker explores the teaching identities and lived experiences of Black women artivist educators in the neoliberal anti-woke moment, using narrative inquiry and Black feminist and womanist pedagogy. It highlights the co-creation of communities of practice through culture work, challenging hegemonic discourse and hidden curricula.

Format: Hardback
Length: 190 pages
Publication date: 15 April 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

The Conscious Cultural Worker: Counter-Narratives of Black Women Artivists as Radical Educators employs narrative inquiry and Black feminist and womanist pedagogy to explore the teaching identities and lived experiences of Black women artivist educators in the contemporary neoliberal anti-woke era. Their counter-narratives are presented as vignettes, capturing a specific moment in the lives of Black women artists who employ rap, spoken word, or visual art to transform public spaces such as bars, clubs, galleries, lounges, and alleys into informal educational spaces known as Communities of Reciprocity (CoR). This book contributes to our understanding of situated learning, teacher identity, and the co-creation of communities of practice by centering the perspectives of Black women as conscious culture workers. It achieves this by highlighting the fact that culture work involves a dynamic dialogue between creative experts and receptive spectators, collaboratively producing liberatory and educational narratives. In this book, Black women engage in the cultural realm by challenging dominant discourses and uncovering hidden curricula wherever individuals gather to learn.

Weight: 490g
Dimension: 237 x 159 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666915372