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EDUCATIONAL NECROPOLITICS Scholars across felds of education have longstanding histories of critically considering the many ways that inequities in schooling are engendered and maintained, and, just as signifcantly, how these forms of oppression might be resisted and refused. Drawing from these important dialogues, Educational Necropolitics shares two years of stories, sounds, and powerful images collected through a sonic ethnographic study. What emerges from this work are the reverberations of how students in this context and, more broadly, how youth across the country often negotiate the intersections of race, genders, sexual orientations, class, and other parts of their complex identities in overwhelmingly white high school settings. This book examines what is produced in the wake of educational necropolitics—the capacity for schools to dictate to what degree minoritized students’ ways of being can remain intact—and, signifcantly, it follows the daily lives of youth as they encounter forms of violence through what schools intend to teach, what is left out, what is learned through everyday interactions, and what is valued through the broader emergent cultural contexts. This groundbreaking work includes interactive e-features that invite readers to travel and interact with participants of the study, which utilizes deep listening in qualitative research and refects the results of this sonic ethnography. A truly timely text for educators and administrators, Educational Necropolitics provides an immersive experience in which leaders can address and correct systemic racist practices in the school setting by drawing directly from frst-hand student experiences. Boni Wozolek is an Assistant Professor of Education at Penn State University, Abington College, USA. EDUCATIONAL NECROPOLITICS A Sonic Ethnography of Everyday Racisms in U.S. Schools Boni Wozolek Designed cover image: Ya-Meer McKnight, Painting Title: “The moment” First published 2023 by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 and by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2023 Boni Wozolek The right of Boni Wozolek to be identifed as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identifcation and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Wozolek, Boni, 1984– author. Title: Educational necropolitics : a sonic ethnography of everyday racisms in U.S. schools / Boni Wozolek. Other titles: Sonic ethnography of everyday racisms in United States schools Description: New York : Routledge, 2023. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifers: LCCN 2022042345 | ISBN 9781032370859 (Hardback) | ISBN 9781032370637 (Paperback) | ISBN 9781003335245 (eBook) Subjects: LCSH: Racism in education—United States. | Ethnology—United States. | Ethnomusicology—United States. | Music—Social aspects— United States. | Discrimination in education—United States.| Racism— United States—History—20th century. Classifcation: LCC LC212.2 .W69 2023 | DDC 371.82—dc23/eng/20221206 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022042345 ISBN: 978-1-032-37085-9 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-37063-7 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-33524-5 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003335245 Typeset in Bembo by Apex CoVantage, LLC For my beautiful mai, Pepe. Until we can embrace again, I’ll hold you in my heart. For my grandfather, Ray. You lived life with your intellectual curiosities foregrounded. For that and so much more, thank you. CONTENTS Acknowledgements viii Preface: Sitting with the Ancestors x Introduction: Sonic Orientations and the Strange Fruit of Schools 1 1 Reverberating Knots: Milford and The Crew 33 2 Too Black for School: Finding Places, Making Spaces 53 3 No After School Special 70 4 “And That’s My Struggle Bus” 86 5 Interlude: Recapitulation and Re-membering 107 6 Framed, Again 114 7 Arrested by Norms 123 8 Fields, Shame, and Schooling 145 9 Necropolitics of Schooling 164 Appendix 177 Index 183 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My ways of being, knowing, and doing as a scholar would not be possible without the village that are my people. From my family at home and abroad to my cho- sen family in the academy, I cannot thank you enough. I would especially like to thank my children, Evalyn and Isaac. When people ask me how I have managed to be successful as a mother-scholar, I wish there were some secret for “doing it all.” The reality is that I make sacrifces. Many of those sacrifces cost me time with my children. While I’d like to express my gratitude, I would also like to apologize for anything I might have missed along the way as this book, and my career, came into being. To my partner, Adam, thank you for working to pick up the pieces of those things I missed along the way. To Walter Gershon—This book would not be if it weren’t for your guidance and contribution to the feld, particularly at the intersection of sound studies and education. To Amoaba Gooden, Anneli Frelin, and James Henderson—Your collective guidance was critical to the frst iterations of project. To my parents—Amy, Annie, Baji, Dia, Gary, and Steve—your love and support along the way has not gone unnoticed and continues to be a driv- ing force in my life. To those whose work, care, and love has shaped my ways of being, knowing, and doing as a scholar—Reagan Mitchell, Rob Helfenbein, Thea Berry, Denise Taliaferro Baszile, Ming Fang He, Janet Miller, Jerry Rosiek, Sherick Hughes, Kent den Heyer, Erica Meiners, and Dave Stovall, among others—I am indebted to you. To Micha Rahder for her editorial eye, my deepest apprecia- tion. To my current administration at Penn State Abington—Margo DelliCarpini, Andy August, and Dave Ruth—thank you for always giving me space and support as pre-tenured faculty so this work could be possible. Finally, I recognize that it is impossible to fully capture all those with whom you stand, and those whose work makes your scholarship possible. Given that this is a sonic ethnography, I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to those Acknowledgements ix who have truly heard me over time. Rather than continuing with an exhaustive, and ultimately incomplete, list of people, I’d like to offer the following playlist1 to allow you to hear my gratitude. It is my hope that those who have listened deeply to my life and work will ultimately see themselves in these songs. Glissando of Gratitude - Track 1: Fly Me to the Moon, Frank Sinatra - Track 2: Beautiful Boy, John Lennon - Track 3: Over the Rainbow, Israel Ka‘ano‘i Kamakawiwo‘ole - Track 4: Turning Pages, Eric Bibb - Track 5: Long, Long Journey, Allen Toussaint - Track 6: Qualifed, Dr. John - Track 7: Easy Living, Hank Crawford - Track 8: Smokestack Lightnin’, Howlin’ Wolf - Track 9: Good as Hell, Lizzo - Track 10: No Regrets, Mwenso and the Shake - Track 11: Georgia on My Mind, Ray Charles - Track 12: Fight the Power, Public Enemy - Track 13: Jai Ho!, A.R. Rahman - Track 14: House of the Rising Sun, The Animals - Track 15: Cello Suite No. 1 in G. Major, Prélude, Johann Sebastian Bach - Track 16: Sign ‘O the Times, Prince - Track 17: Break up the Concrete, The Pretenders - Track 18: Tank!, Seatbelts - Track 19: Tightrope, Janelle Monáe - Track 20: Ain’t Nobody (Gonna Turn Me Around), Aretha Franklin

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