Krystal Strong
Biographic Data
| ID | 114386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Krystal Strong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Krystal |
| FAMILY NAME | Strong |
| SIGNATURE | STRONG K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7977-3417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Organizing pedagogies: Transgressing campus-movement boundaries through radical study and action
Background This article considers the speculative and pedagogical character of campus abolitionist organizing. Extending education research into the knowledge (re)producing functions of radical activism, we draw upon the Black Radical Tradition to theorize the intersections of learning and imagination in both activism and education.Method The article centers an autoethnographic case study emerging from the authors’ experiences at University of Pe…
Learning from the Movement for Black Lives: Horizons of Racial Justice for Comparative and International Education
This opening editorial for the special issue “Black Lives Matter and Global Struggles for Racial Justice in Education” engages with the theory and praxis of Black Lives Matter (BLM). One cannot fully understand the powerful intellectual and political work of BLM without considering the macro-level structural forces of state violence, racial capitalism, and anti-Blackness that BLM boldly challenges. To this end, the editorial first outlines the or…
Come Correct: Itineraries of Discovery in Black Women's Ethnographic Practice
This methodological reflection invokes the legacy of Black women anthropologists, who have approached ethnography not as encounters with “The Other” but as part of African Diasporic projects. As two U.S. Black women ethnographers, who understand our fieldwork contexts in West Africa as sites of return, re‐discovery, and struggle, we situate our work within Black feminist genealogies, which refashion anthropological tools to re‐map and reconstitut…
We bring in each other's wisdom’: Liberatory praxis and political education for Black lives in Philadelphia
Education is a central aspect of social movements' ability to build individual and collective participation in political struggle. But, how do these processes of learning and consciousness take place? As Choudry (Choudry, A. 2015. Learning Activism: The intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements. University of Toronto Press) argues, it is important to examine the intellectual life of contemporary social movements, their various forms and …
The case for educational reparations: Addressing racial injustices in sustainable development goal 4
This paper presents an examination of the education Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 4) through the lens of race. It argues, at this mid-way point of the SDGs, that race continues to be erased, acting as an absent presence, in global educational policy, practice and goals. To address this, the paper calls for a radical review of contemporary development discourse such that the SDGs, and in particular SDG 4, are framed in ways that acknowledge hi…
Locus of Struggle: The African Campus and Contemporary Protest Forms
In this article, we begin from the presupposition that the university campus – historically, in the popular imagination, and in any possible futures worth fighting for – is a terrain of struggle. Drawing from our ongoing study, which has documented and digitally mapped more than 700 campus protest events occurring over the past 20 years across Africa, we explore protest as a lens for interpreting the experience and continued renegotiation of the …
Youth leadership for development: Contradictions of Africa's growing leadership pipeline
Over the past decade, hundreds of youth leadership initiatives have been established globally with the mission of grooming a new generation of leaders. This paper examines this largely unstudied and rapidly expanding leadership pipeline based on an ongoing study, which has collected data on 277 programmes that: target African youth, offer educational training or professional development, and have goals of cultivating leaders who will contribute t…
Special Issue: Black Lives Matter and Global Struggles for Racial Justice in Education
Love for My People: Some Reflections on Sheila Walker and Life-Affirming Anthropology
ORIGINAL ARTICLE Sheila S. Walker. 1991. “The Virtues of Positive Ethnocentrism: Some Reflections of an Afrocentric Anthropologist.” Transforming Anthropology 2(2): 23-26. https://doi.org/10.1525/tran.1991.2.2.23 I said I love being Black. I love the color of my skin, it's the skin that I'm in. I love the texture of my hair, and I rock it everywhere. I said I love being Black!11 The chant “I Love Being Black” is a popular call-and-response in Mov…
Do African Lives Matter to Black Lives Matter? Youth Uprisings and the Borders of Solidarity
Despite experiencing a proliferation of youth-led mobilizations in recent years, Africa remains peripheral to the analysis of the U.S.-centered Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). This article explores points of convergence and tension between African uprisings and the M4BL, with a focus on two movements at the intersection of education and activism: Nigerian “Occupy” protests and the “Fees Must Fall” movement in South Africa. Ultimately, I make the…
Naija boy remix: Afroexploitation and the new media creative economies of cosmopolitan African youth
This article examines how young African cultural entrepreneurs harness the economic, technological and creative openings created by globalization with a focus on the Naija Boyz, two Nigerian-born, US-based brothers, who became YouTube sensations via their ‘African Remix’ genre of hip hop video parodies. With over 20 million views, the videos are situated within four converging movements within contemporary African youth cultural production: the m…
Naija boy remix: Afroexploitation and the new media creative economies of cosmopolitan African youth
This article examines how young African cultural entrepreneurs harness the economic, technological and creative openings created by globalization with a focus on the Naija Boyz, two Nigerian-born, US-based brothers, who became YouTube sensations via their 'African Remix' genre of hip hop video parodies. With over 20 million views, the videos are situated within four converging movements within contemporary African youth cultural production: the m…
Do African Lives Matter to Black Lives Matter? Youth Uprisings and the Borders of Solidarity
Despite experiencing a proliferation of youth-led mobilizations in recent years, Africa remains peripheral to the analysis of the U.S.-centered Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). This article explores points of convergence and tension between African uprisings and the M4BL, with a focus on two movements at the intersection of education and activism: Nigerian “Occupy” protests and the “Fees Must Fall” movement in South Africa. Ultimately, I make the…
Naija boy remix: Afroexploitation and the new media creative economies of cosmopolitan African youth
This article examines how young African cultural entrepreneurs harness the economic, technological and creative openings created by globalization with a focus on the Naija Boyz, two Nigerian-born, US-based brothers, who became YouTube sensations via their 'African Remix' genre of hip hop video parodies. With over 20 million views, the videos are situated within four converging movements within contemporary African youth cultural production: the m…
Love for My People: Some Reflections on Sheila Walker and Life-Affirming Anthropology
ORIGINAL ARTICLE Sheila S. Walker. 1991. “The Virtues of Positive Ethnocentrism: Some Reflections of an Afrocentric Anthropologist.” Transforming Anthropology 2(2): 23-26. https://doi.org/10.1525/tran.1991.2.2.23 I said I love being Black. I love the color of my skin, it's the skin that I'm in. I love the texture of my hair, and I rock it everywhere. I said I love being Black!11 The chant “I Love Being Black” is a popular call-and-response in Mov…
We bring in each other's wisdom’: Liberatory praxis and political education for Black lives in Philadelphia
Education is a central aspect of social movements' ability to build individual and collective participation in political struggle. But, how do these processes of learning and consciousness take place? As Choudry (Choudry, A. 2015. Learning Activism: The intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements. University of Toronto Press) argues, it is important to examine the intellectual life of contemporary social movements, their various forms and …
The case for educational reparations: Addressing racial injustices in sustainable development goal 4
This paper presents an examination of the education Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 4) through the lens of race. It argues, at this mid-way point of the SDGs, that race continues to be erased, acting as an absent presence, in global educational policy, practice and goals. To address this, the paper calls for a radical review of contemporary development discourse such that the SDGs, and in particular SDG 4, are framed in ways that acknowledge hi…
Locus of Struggle: The African Campus and Contemporary Protest Forms
In this article, we begin from the presupposition that the university campus – historically, in the popular imagination, and in any possible futures worth fighting for – is a terrain of struggle. Drawing from our ongoing study, which has documented and digitally mapped more than 700 campus protest events occurring over the past 20 years across Africa, we explore protest as a lens for interpreting the experience and continued renegotiation of the …
Youth leadership for development: Contradictions of Africa's growing leadership pipeline
Over the past decade, hundreds of youth leadership initiatives have been established globally with the mission of grooming a new generation of leaders. This paper examines this largely unstudied and rapidly expanding leadership pipeline based on an ongoing study, which has collected data on 277 programmes that: target African youth, offer educational training or professional development, and have goals of cultivating leaders who will contribute t…
Naija boy remix: Afroexploitation and the new media creative economies of cosmopolitan African youth
This article examines how young African cultural entrepreneurs harness the economic, technological and creative openings created by globalization with a focus on the Naija Boyz, two Nigerian-born, US-based brothers, who became YouTube sensations via their 'African Remix' genre of hip hop video parodies. With over 20 million views, the videos are situated within four converging movements within contemporary African youth cultural production: the m…
Naija boy remix: Afroexploitation and the new media creative economies of cosmopolitan African youth
This article examines how young African cultural entrepreneurs harness the economic, technological and creative openings created by globalization with a focus on the Naija Boyz, two Nigerian-born, US-based brothers, who became YouTube sensations via their ‘African Remix’ genre of hip hop video parodies. With over 20 million views, the videos are situated within four converging movements within contemporary African youth cultural production: the m…
Do African Lives Matter to Black Lives Matter? Youth Uprisings and the Borders of Solidarity
Despite experiencing a proliferation of youth-led mobilizations in recent years, Africa remains peripheral to the analysis of the U.S.-centered Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). This article explores points of convergence and tension between African uprisings and the M4BL, with a focus on two movements at the intersection of education and activism: Nigerian “Occupy” protests and the “Fees Must Fall” movement in South Africa. Ultimately, I make the…
Love for My People: Some Reflections on Sheila Walker and Life-Affirming Anthropology
ORIGINAL ARTICLE Sheila S. Walker. 1991. “The Virtues of Positive Ethnocentrism: Some Reflections of an Afrocentric Anthropologist.” Transforming Anthropology 2(2): 23-26. https://doi.org/10.1525/tran.1991.2.2.23 I said I love being Black. I love the color of my skin, it's the skin that I'm in. I love the texture of my hair, and I rock it everywhere. I said I love being Black!11 The chant “I Love Being Black” is a popular call-and-response in Mov…
Special Issue: Black Lives Matter and Global Struggles for Racial Justice in Education
Youth leadership for development: Contradictions of Africa's growing leadership pipeline
Over the past decade, hundreds of youth leadership initiatives have been established globally with the mission of grooming a new generation of leaders. This paper examines this largely unstudied and rapidly expanding leadership pipeline based on an ongoing study, which has collected data on 277 programmes that: target African youth, offer educational training or professional development, and have goals of cultivating leaders who will contribute t…
Organizing pedagogies: Transgressing campus-movement boundaries through radical study and action
Background This article considers the speculative and pedagogical character of campus abolitionist organizing. Extending education research into the knowledge (re)producing functions of radical activism, we draw upon the Black Radical Tradition to theorize the intersections of learning and imagination in both activism and education.Method The article centers an autoethnographic case study emerging from the authors’ experiences at University of Pe…
Learning from the Movement for Black Lives: Horizons of Racial Justice for Comparative and International Education
This opening editorial for the special issue “Black Lives Matter and Global Struggles for Racial Justice in Education” engages with the theory and praxis of Black Lives Matter (BLM). One cannot fully understand the powerful intellectual and political work of BLM without considering the macro-level structural forces of state violence, racial capitalism, and anti-Blackness that BLM boldly challenges. To this end, the editorial first outlines the or…
Come Correct: Itineraries of Discovery in Black Women's Ethnographic Practice
This methodological reflection invokes the legacy of Black women anthropologists, who have approached ethnography not as encounters with “The Other” but as part of African Diasporic projects. As two U.S. Black women ethnographers, who understand our fieldwork contexts in West Africa as sites of return, re‐discovery, and struggle, we situate our work within Black feminist genealogies, which refashion anthropological tools to re‐map and reconstitut…
We bring in each other's wisdom’: Liberatory praxis and political education for Black lives in Philadelphia
Education is a central aspect of social movements' ability to build individual and collective participation in political struggle. But, how do these processes of learning and consciousness take place? As Choudry (Choudry, A. 2015. Learning Activism: The intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements. University of Toronto Press) argues, it is important to examine the intellectual life of contemporary social movements, their various forms and …
The case for educational reparations: Addressing racial injustices in sustainable development goal 4
This paper presents an examination of the education Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 4) through the lens of race. It argues, at this mid-way point of the SDGs, that race continues to be erased, acting as an absent presence, in global educational policy, practice and goals. To address this, the paper calls for a radical review of contemporary development discourse such that the SDGs, and in particular SDG 4, are framed in ways that acknowledge hi…
Locus of Struggle: The African Campus and Contemporary Protest Forms
In this article, we begin from the presupposition that the university campus – historically, in the popular imagination, and in any possible futures worth fighting for – is a terrain of struggle. Drawing from our ongoing study, which has documented and digitally mapped more than 700 campus protest events occurring over the past 20 years across Africa, we explore protest as a lens for interpreting the experience and continued renegotiation of the …
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works)