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. 2022 Mar;26(3):25-44.

Somewhere Between a Rock and an Outer Space: Regenerating Apocalyptic Education

Kenjus Watson  1 , Tiffani Marie  2
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Somewhere Between a Rock and an Outer Space: Regenerating Apocalyptic Education

Kenjus Watson et al. J Futur Stud. 2022 Mar.

Abstract

As Black people, our everyday existence invites us to remember that anti-blackness is the foundation of modern civilization and has metastasized throughout every construction of civil society (Sharpe, 2016). Our existence within schools unveils them as self-replicating enclosures spawned by the plantation to undermine Black life (Sojoyner, 2017). In this paper, we use an Apocalyptic Educational framework (Marie & Watson, 2020) to share research on the biological (telomere) impact of schooling and anti-blackness. We aim to distinguish education from schooling and disrupt normative beliefs that more Black children accessing better schools will lead to their social, economic, and physiological wellness.

Keywords: Anti-blackness; Apocalyptic Education; Black Wellness; Re-membering; School Abolition.

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TL Ratio Pre and Post
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Black Men at UCLA and Telomere Length (N = 44)
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Reported Frequency and Location of Experiences of Racial Microaggressions among Black Students at UCLA with Relatively Shorter Telomeres
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Reported Frequency and Location of Experiences of Racial Microaggressions among Black Students at UCLA with Relatively Longer Telomeres
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Telomere Lengths among Black Men at UCLA and Breast Cancer Survivors (June 2018)
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Filmon’s Growth among Telomere Lengths of Black Men at UCLA and Breast Cancer Survivors (October 2020)
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Apocalyptic Education Protection Paradigm
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