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Understanding privilege from the perspective of cultural resilience and inherited strength shifts the narrative around systemic injustice, offering a transformative lens for empowerment. By highlighting the rich histories, spiritual traditions, and intergenerational wisdom within the Black community, this perspective affirms identity and fosters collective pride. It challenges dominant frameworks, inspiring deeper reflection on the impact of colonialism and the enduring power of cultural inheritance. This approach not only amplifies marginalized voices but also nurtures solidarity and awareness across diverse communities. It celebrates the unique strengths that arise from overcoming adversity, reinforcing the importance of honoring and preserving cultural heritage. Navigating Black Privilege Across the Globe focuses on the unique strengths, cultural assets, and profound resilience that comes with being part of the Black community. It explores the historical empowerment of African descendants as they confront the systemic injustices of slavery, colonialism, and imperialism. Covering topics such as African diaspora, international collaboration, and social justice, this book is an excellent resource for academicians, researchers, students, educators, activists, policymakers, community leaders, and more.
About the author
Dr. McClean is a poet, author and scholar/activist whose research agenda focuses on the African Diaspora and the historical empowerment of people of color across the globe. She recently transitioned from her role as English Faculty at Florida Institute of Technology, where she taught Writing about Literature and Global Literature to pursue decolonized research methodologies with an emphasis on the African Diaspora, Education Justice and Black, Aboriginal and Indigenous societies. Her role as editor of The Struggle for Justice, Equity & Peace in the Global Classroom, IGI Global, 2023 is an outgrowth of this work. An award-winning educator-researcher, Dr. McClean is the Gladstone Library, UK, Political Scholar in Residence 2020, author of From the Middle Passage to Black Lives Matter: Ancestral Writing as a Pedagogy of Hope (2019), Bridges to Memory: Poems by Marva McClean (2007) and co-author (with Marcus Waters, Griffith University, Australia) of Indigenous Epistemology: Descent into the Womb of Decolonized Research Methodologies (2020).
