Anti-Racism in Early Childhood Education

Contents

Foreword Nathaniel Bryan  ix

Introduction: An Urgent Call for Anti-Racism in Early Childhood Education  1
Kerry-Ann Escayg, Flóra Faragó, and Terry Husband

PART I: RESISTING WHITENESS AND IMPLEMENTING ANTI-RACISM IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

1.  Disrupting Whiteness Through an Early Childhood Teacher Educator Critical Community of Practice (CCoP)  19
Azaria Cunningham, Allison Sterling Henward, Michelle N. Brown, and Quiana M. Jackson

2.  Using Anti-Racist Pedagogy in EC Teacher Preparation Programs  31
Oona Fontanella-Nothom, Amanda M. Welch, and Juliette M. Lahey

3.  Empowering Narratives of Black and Brown ECE Educators  45
Dannaé L. Orisamolade and Crystal M. Timmons

4.  Recognizing the Contributions of Black Women and Amplifying Their Voices to Transform Early Childhood Education  55
Dannaé L. Orisamolade

5.  Anti-Racist Approaches to Early Childhood Education Program Evaluation  63
Caroline F. D. Black

PART II: ANTI-RACISM VIA CURRICULA: BOOKS AND LITERACY PRACTICES

6.  Confronting Race and Representation in Early Childhood Education  77
Tara Kirton and La Toya C. K. Caton

7.  Resisting Curriculum Erasure: A Child-Initiated Advocacy Project for Asian American Bilingual Picture Books  89
Alisha Nguyen

8.  Unveiling Whiteness in Early Childhood Education: Exploring Student-Created Children’s Books  103
Kimberly L. Davidson

9.  Centering Anti-Racist Pedagogy in Early Years Literacy in the Ontario Public Education System  115
Hardeep Shergill

10.  Reimagining Curriculum as Homeplace: A Case for Africentricity in Pre-Kindergarten  131
Karen Murray, Rukiya Mohamed, and Stephanie Fearon

PART III: ANTI-RACIST PEDAGOGY: REIMAGINING DISCIPLINE PRACTICES

11.  Assessing the Impact of Whiteness in Shaping Discipline and Liberatory Pedagogy in Early Care and Education Settings  151
Elizabeth Fajemirokun, Magdalen Deschane, Nina Smith, Wynetta Y. Lee, and Royel M. Johnson

12.  Creating a Blueprint for Eliminating Suspensions, Expulsions, and Exclusions in Early Care and Education in North Carolina and Beyond  161
Sherrell Hicklen House, Valerie Jarvis McMillan, Nina Smith, Jennifer Mendoza Beasley, Megan Vinh, and Brenda K. Williamson

13.  “I Want Them to Know . . .”: A Black Mother’s Poetic Resistance to Preschool Pushout  171
Shannon W. Martin Dantzler

14.  Resistance to White Supremacy and the Struggle to Foster Black Joy in the (Early) Education of Black Girls  179
Jamie L. Palmer-Asemota

PART IV: LOVING BLACKNESS: RACIAL PRIDE AND RESISTANCE

15.  Using Digital Images to Foster Resistance in Early Childhood Classrooms  193
Nakisha Whittington

16.  An Autoethnographic Afrofuturist Experience of Dance Education  203
Quiana M. Jackson

17.  Young Children’s Interrogation of White School Spaces  209
Hafizat Sanni-Anibire

PART V: ANTI-RACIST PARENT AND FAMILY ENGAGEMENT

18.  A Black Mother’s Love Letter to Navigating Whiteness in Early Childhood Education  223
Prilly Bicknell-Hersco

19.  Help That Is Stressful to Black Mothers  231
Amittia Parker

20.  A Light Through the “Fog of Whiteness”: Bridging Anti-Racist Early Childhood Education With Anti-Racist Parenting  239
Kendall Aroldo Lee Brown

Endnotes  255

Index  257

About the Editors and Contributors  267