Futuring Black Lives: Independent Black Institutions and the Literary Imagination (Black Lives and Liberation)

by Maisha T. Winn

Futuring Black Lives is a historical ethnography examining Black institution builders in the late 1960s and early 1970s and their work to leverage the power of publications and the literary imagination to engage "concerned men and women" in conversations about the educational journeys and futures of Black children. While many began as reactions to anti-Blackness and American public schooling failing Black children, Independent Black Institutions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826507921
• ISBN13: 9780826507921
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 244 Pages