Resisting Brown : Race, Literacy, and Citizenship in the Heart of Virginia / Candace Epps-Robertson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Epps-Robertson, Candace, author.

Series:

Composition, literacy, and culture.

Composition, literacy, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prince Edward County Free School Association (Va.).

Free schools--Virginia--Prince Edward County.

Free schools.

School integration--Virginia--Prince Edward County.

School integration.

Segregation in education--Virginia--Prince Edward County.

Segregation in education.

Prince Edward County (Va.)--Race relations.

Prince Edward County (Va.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (xv, 148 pages) :) illustration.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]

Summary:

Many localities in America resisted integration in the aftermath of the Brown v. Board of Education rulings (1954, 1955). Virginia's Prince Edward County stands as perhaps the most extreme. Rather than fund integrated schools, the county's board of supervisors closed public schools from 1959 until 1964. The only formal education available for those locked out of school came in 1963 when the combined efforts of Prince Edward's African American community and aides from President John F. Kennedy's administration established the Prince Edward County Free School Association (Free School). This temporary school system would serve just over 1,500 students, both black and white, aged 6 through 23. Drawing upon extensive archival research, Resisting Brown presents the Free School as a site in which important rhetorical work took place. Candace Epps-Robertson analyzes public discourse that supported the school closures as an effort and manifestation of citizenship and demonstrates how the establishment of the Free School can be seen as a rhetorical response to white supremacist ideologies. The school's mission statements, philosophies, and commitment to literacy served as arguments against racialized constructions of citizenship. Prince Edward County stands as a microcosm of America's struggle with race, literacy, and citizenship.

Contents:

Preface : a genealogy through stories

Introduction : the power, possibility, and peril in histories of literacy

Rhetoric, race, and citizenship in the heart of Virginia

Manufacturing and responding to white supremacist ideology in the "Virginia way"

"Teaching must be our way of demonstrating!" : institutional design against white supremacy

Free School students speak

Pomp and circumstance : the legacy of the Prince Edward County Free School Association for contemporary literacy theory and pedagogy

Appendix. Timeline of key local, regional, and national events related to civil rights.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-144) and index.

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ISBN:

9780822986454

0822986450

OCLC:

1059451208