A Liberatory Geography of Educational Possibility: Black Internationalism and Islamic Educational Spaces in Senegal

ABSTRACT Drawing from the perspectives of Black American Muslim parents who send their children to an Islamic school in a Sufi city in Senegal, this article develops the concept of a liberatory geography of educational possibility . I argue that parents made meaning of the school and city as spaces that nurtured their children's holistic growth and deepened their understandings of their multilayered identities in ways beyond what parents believed were possible in the U.S.