Thinking about Black Education : An Interdisciplinary Reader / edited by Hilton Kelly and Heather Moore Roberson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kelly, Hilton, editor.

Moore Roberson, Heather, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Education.

African Americans.

African Americans--Education--History.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 501 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Gorham, ME : Myers Education Press, LLC, [2018]

Summary:

In this pioneering interdisciplinary reader, Hilton Kelly and Heather Moore Roberson have curated essential readings for thinking about black education from slavery to the present day. The reading selections are timeless with both historical and contemporary readings from educational anthropology, history, legal studies, literary studies, and sociology to document the foundations and development of Black education in the United States. In addition, the authors highlight scholarship offering historical, conceptual, and pedagogical gems that shine a light on Black people's enduring pursuit of liberatory education. This book is an invitation to a broad audience, from people with no previous knowledge to scholars in the field, to think critically about Black education and to inspire others to uncover the agency, dreams, struggles, aspirations, and liberation of Black people across generations.

Contents:

Preface

Part I

Introduction: Out From the Gloomy Past

Selection 1: In Secret Places: Acquiring Literacy in Slave Communities (Heather Andrea Williams)

Selection 2: Ex-Slaves and the Rise of Universal Education in the South, 1860-1880 (James D. Anderson)

Selection 3: Spreading the Word: The Cultural Work of The Black Press (Elizabeth McHenry)

Selection 4: The Spread of Northern School Segregation, 1890-1940 (D. M. Douglas)

Selection 5: Organized Resistance and Black Educators' Quest for School Equality, 1878-1938 (Vanessa Siddle Walker)

Selection 6: Patterns of Black Excellence (Thomas Sowell)

Selection 7: The Price of Desegregation (Trudier Harris)

Part II

Introduction: A (Black) Nation at Risk?

Selection 8: Black Students' School Success: Coping With the Burden of "Acting White" (Signithia Fordham and John U. Ogbu)

Selection 9: Reexamining Resistance as Oppositional Behavior: The Nation of Islam and the Creation of a Black Achievement Ideology (A. A. Akom)

Selection 10: The Canary in the Mine: The Achievement Gap Between Black and White Students (Mano Singham)

Selection 11: Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (Gloria Ladson-Billings)

Selection 12: Introduction: Teaching to Transgress (bell hooks)

Feminist Scholarship: Black Scholars (bell hooks)

Selection 13: Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education (Gloria Ladson- Billings and William F. Tate IV)

Selection 14: Early Schooling and Academic Achievement of African American Males (James Earl Davis)

Selection 15: "Those Loud Black Girls": (Black) Women, Silence, and Gender "Passing" in the Academy (Signithia Fordham)

Selection 16: Framing and Reviewing Hip-Hop Educational Research (Emery Petchauer)

Selection 17: "Be Real Black for Me": Imagining BlackCrit in Education (Michael J. Dumas and kihana miraya ross)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical records and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-9755-0253-1

OCLC:

1374429705