Purpose

This study aims to present radical abolition studies, which encourages us to (re)member that the abolition of institutions and systems is incomplete without the abolition of their attendant epistemes of domination. The authors draw on the etymology of the word radical to encourage abolitionist praxis to grab systemic harm at its epistemological roots. Within radical abolition studies, this study presents Black abolition theory, which aims to make explicit a theorization of Blackness and works to abolish the episteme of anti-Blackness.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper offers Black abolition theory within radical abolition studies to reground abolition in its Black theoretical roots and to interrogate the concept of anti-Blackness and other epistemes of domination in abolitionist study and practice. Using a close reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction, and subsequent books and articles in abolition studies and educational studies that reference it, the authors highlight Du Bois’ original conceptualization of abolitionism as an ultimate refutation of a racial-social order and anti-Blackness. The authors then put Michael Dumas and kihana ross’ theory of BlackCrit into conversation with abolitionist and educational theory to push forward Black abolition theory.

Findings

Radical abolition studies and its attendant strand of Black abolition theory presented in this paper encourages scholars and practitioners to go beyond the dismantling of current instantiations of systemic harm for Black and other minoritized people – such as the school as it currently operates – and encourages the questioning and dismantling of the epistemes of domination sitting at the foundation of these systems of harm.

Originality/value

Black abolition theory contextualizes abolition in education by rooting abolitionist educational praxis in Black lineages. More generally, radical abolition studies encourages further research, study and collaboration in partnership with others who have historically participated in the fight against being labeled as subhuman to upend all epistemes of domination.

中文翻译：

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激进废奴研究中的黑人废奴理论：颠覆统治的实践、结构和认识

目的

这项研究旨在提出激进的废除研究，它鼓励我们（重新）记住，如果不废除与之相伴的统治认识，制度和制度的废除是不完整的。作者利用“激进”一词的词源来鼓励废奴主义实践从其认识论根源上抓住系统性伤害。在激进废奴研究中，本研究提出了黑人废奴理论，旨在明确黑人的理论化，并致力于废除反黑人的认识。

设计/方法论/途径

本文在激进废奴研究中提供了黑人废奴理论，以重新确立废奴的黑人理论根源，并质疑废奴主义研究和实践中的反黑人概念和其他统治认识。通过仔细阅读网络杜波依斯的《黑人重建》，以及随后参考它的废奴研究和教育研究的书籍和文章，作者强调了杜波依斯最初对废奴主义的概念化，即对种族社会秩序和反种族歧视的最终反驳。黑。然后，作者将迈克尔·杜马斯和基哈纳·罗斯的黑人批评理论与废奴主义和教育理论进行对话，以推动黑人废奴理论。

发现

本文提出的激进废奴研究及其随之而来的黑人废奴理论鼓励学者和实践者超越当前对黑人和其他少数族裔造成的系统性伤害的实例——例如目前运营的学校——并鼓励质疑并拆除作为这些伤害系统基础的统治认知。

原创性/价值

黑人废奴理论通过将废奴主义教育实践植根于黑人血统，将废奴纳入教育背景。更一般地说，激进废奴研究鼓励与历史上参与反对被贴上非人类标签的其他人合作进行进一步的研究、研究和合作，以颠覆所有统治认知。