Afrolantica: Black Boys’ Transformative Educational Experiences with Radical Black Love in a Christian Historically African American Boarding School

Abstract The current understanding concerning the educational experiences of Black boys within independent Black founded and led schools is limited. This paper fills this void in the research by analyzing the educational experiences of eight black boys in a northeastern Christian Historically African American Boarding School and it makes sense of the essence of these experiences. This study found that the Black boys had a transformational learning experiences because the school’s culture was rooted in radical Black love, which drove the educational practices and decisions of Black educators within this institution. Finally, the Black boys experienced a sense of single consciousness, which is a unique phenomenon in which Black people do not experience psychological distress and feel the need to self-police their racialized selves out of fear of confirming racial biases or sense the need to be a racial representive to white people to counter negative racial stereotypes.