This symposium emerged organically when we received two separate articles that provoked considerable emotion, discussion, and excitement among the members of the Editorial Board. On receiving Signithia Fordham’s article “Passin’ for Black: Race, Identity, and Bone Memory in Postracial America,” we believed it was groundbreaking work—a piece that would push readers toward new ways of thinking. Shortly thereafter we received Carmen Kynard’s “From Candy Girls to Cyber Sista-Cipher: Narrating Black Females’ Color-Consciousness and Counterstories in and out of School.” It was as if Fordham issued a call and Kynard rose to respond. Thus this symposium on Black women in education was born.

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