Comparing The Who, What And When Of The Theoretical Framework Of Black Joy

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Black Joy: A Model for Understanding Black Student Success
The Who, What, and When of the Theoretical Framework of Black Joy Black Joy is a theoretical framework grounded in social justice and used by Black people to assert and celebrate the full range of their humanity (CITATIONS). The framework of Black Joy is rooted in the work of resisting the dehumanizing effects of racism; it is a framework that centers the joy, love, and exuberance of being alive and Black, as an anthesis to the historical centering of the trauma and pain that comes with experiencing anti-Black racism (Love, 2019). At its core, the theoretical framework of Black Joy functions to emphasize and uplift the humanity of Black people by creating space for Black people …show more content…

. . affirmation. . . a cleansing. . . its’ own kind of resistance,” and at the same time as “an unwillingness to contort itself in order to become some beacon of light for the world,” (pp. 11-19). Additionally, she linked Black love, liberation, and joy as necessarily mutually inclusive (Lewis-Giggetts, 2022). Furthermore, since Black joy and liberated are so necessarily interconnected, Mile and Roby (2022) stated that a “prerequisite to Black students to be liberated” in the classroom is the “reframing and dismantling of deficit depictions and beliefs of Black people and their children,” (p. 187). Thus, Black Joy is a theoretical framework for Black healing and liberation (Miles and Roby, 2022; Lewis-Giggetts, 2022; Stewart, …show more content…

While Duncan, Hall, and Dunn (2023) and Miles and Roby (2022) have applied the concept of Black Joy to social studies and science education, respectively, in the K-12 context, Tichavakunda (2021) applied the framework of Black Joy in conjunction with “Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s (2019) theory of racialized emotions” to study the celebrations and recreational practices of Black students in a higher education context (p.