Leading While Black

Reflections on the Racial Realities of Black School Leaders Through the Obama Era and Beyond

By: Floyd Cobb

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eBook | 27 September 2022 | Edition Number 1

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What does it mean to lead while Black in America? How do Black educators lead for equity to ensure a quality academic experience for Black children when calls for equality are routinely discredited in our post-racial context? Through this book, Floyd Cobb passionately and honestly draws from his personal and professional experiences to describe his path to accepting the harsh realities of being an equity-minded Black leader in K-12 schools. Offered through the performance of autoethnography, Cobb highlights and gives voice to the often-unacknowledged vulnerability of equity-minded Black leaders who work in suburban contexts. Using the era of the Obama presidency as the backdrop for this work, Cobb illuminates the challenges and complexities of advocating for marginalized children who come from a shared racial heritage in a society that far too often are reluctant to accept such efforts. Through Leading While Black, emerging and aspiring Black leaders will be reminded that they are not alone in their struggles, but must nonetheless persist if we are to do our part in making education a better experience for our children.

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"In this extremely important book, Floyd Cobb guides readers through powerful autobiographical accounts of his journey in schools and education. From his early years as a student in mostly White schools to his current role as an educational leader and researcher, readers experience vivid first-person accounts of what it [still] means to live, work, and learn in a society that is far, far from post-racial. With precision and fortitude, Cobb poses and answers a provocative question: What does it mean to lead while Black? Indeed, at a time of serious political, social, economic, and educational uncertainty, Cobb reminds us all that we must study, work to more clearly understand, and situate issues of race, human suffering, and systemic inequity at the very center of our work as those committed to equity in education! If you want to be re-energized to fight for social justice for all students, read this book!"-H. Richard Milner IV, Helen Faison Endowed Chair of Urban Education, University of Pittsburgh; Author of «Rac(e)ing to Class»