CURRICULUM, POLICY, AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE - CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES FOR THE YEAR-2000 AND BEYOND

In this article, the author discusses the role of an autochthonous cri tique that challenges the regime of truth operating in prevailing educ ational discourses that perpetuate dominant social structure and power relations. The author argues that the contemporary challenge for the curriculum field and educational policy is to create pedagogy and impl ement social action that reflects new visions of human kind and influe nces the emergent popular and intellectual culture. The author argues that the African American community is ultimately responsible for the education of African American children. Finally, the author implies th at perhaps the greatest threat to the African American community is th e kind of miseducation that produces dominant society appointed ''New Negro'' leadership, whose ideological and political perspectives are a ntithetical to the African American community, and whose embrace of do minant societal worldviews results in a self-imposed alienation from t heir own Black communal roots, culture, and people.