Issues that Influence African American Education and Literacy

Education
Student's Name
Institution/Affiliation
Course
Professor
Date.
Education
Several sociocultural and historical events have influenced African American education and literacies. African American literacies refer to the idea that African American social practices, situations, and cultural identities impact how this discourse group makes sense of the world and asserts their sociopolitical claims in official and informal settings. Early scholarly thought regarding Black language and culture reflected the prevalent biases of the period since Americans of African origin had been enslaved and disadvantaged within American society (Lee & Slaughter-Defoe, 1995). 
Race is still poorly conceptualized concerning mathematics participation and learning in research, policy, and practice. For African-American students to participate fully in democracy, mathematics instruction must be tied to their lives and experiences. African-American children have historically had few opportunities in school to relate mathematics to their own lives and experiences (Bullock, 2019). Brown v. Board of Education best shows racial remediation in educational policy. By enabling Black students to attend the same schools as White children, desegregation seemed to address the problem of educational imbalance. However, there was little proof that these modifications would enhance the educational opportunities for Black students.
African American pupils' access to equitable mathematics education is hampered by the inability to "center" them in the learning process and to draw on their community and cultural experiences. For pupils to relate socially and psychologically to various cultural viewpoints, centricity is a perspective that places them inside the context of their cultural references. The negotiation of understanding that results from participating in actual cultural practices is how children develop meaning through social interactions. A math curriculum and pedagogy that ackn...