Daija’s Awakening
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20070810 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nathan Alexander (0000-0002-2029-7329, corresponding author), Nathan N Alexander |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 56-74 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Critical Race Theory in Mathematics Education (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315121192-5 |
| OpenAlex | W2958413180 |
| ISBN | 9781315121192 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Alexander uses allegorical storytelling to discuss racial themes of Black futurity. He presents Daija LaShay Brown, a teenage heroine living on a fictional “Planet Earth” set in the near future. Daija becomes the first African American to return from a Space Race Delegation and uncovers the plot to rid Planet Earth of its Black population during her victory mission to Planet Mars. He employs CRT to: (1) examine Daija’s dilemma and explore increasingly racialized U.S. education policies; and (2) situate speculative fiction and Afrofuturism as tools to counter deficit narratives and position a Black specificity in (mathematics) education
Great Awakening · Theology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |