Thinking About Black Education
An Interdisciplinary Reader
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Published: March 2023
9781975502539
$155.00
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Published: March 2023
9781975502546
$39.95
Publisher: Myers Education Press
7" x 10"Language: English
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.
Thinking About Black Education: An Interdisciplinary Reader will address essential readings in African-Americans’ education. The text is inspired by the editors’ diverse backgrounds in interdisciplinary scholarship and professional communities. Necessary after 400 years of struggle for people of African-American descent to become fully-educated citizens with all the rights and privilege that true freedom brings, it can serve as a cornerstone during this quadricentennial moment by showcasing canonical, cutting-edge, and essential scholarship that people of African descent have produced in the United States.
The collection includes many of the great foundational thinkers and writers of the last 100 years. Selections include work from:
• Heather Andrea Williams
• James D. Anderson
• Elizabeth McHenry
• D. M. Douglas
• Vanessa Siddle Walker
• Thomas Sowell
• Trudier Harris
• Signithia Fordham and John U. Ogbu
• A. A. Akom
• Mano Singham
• Gloria Ladson-Billings
• bell hooks
• William F. Tate IV
• James Earl Davis
• Emery Petchauer
• Michael J. Dumas and kihana miraya ross
Thinking About Black Education is an essential text for a variety of Black Studies courses, but it should also appeal to a broader audience of students and scholars interested in racial equity and social justice across the disciplines.
Perfect for courses such as: Black Education from Slavery to Freedom │ Foundations
of American Education │ Introduction to Africana Studies │ Introduction to Foundations
of Education │ Schools & Society │ Race and Education │ African
American Education │ African American Philosophy │ Education in African American
Culture
Dedication
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: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom – 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
Index
Reviews & Endorsements:
“Now this is the book we’ve been waiting for in educational studies. An ingenious one-stop academic commentary featuring many of the most treasured treatises on historical and contemporary Black education. A must-read!”
Tondra L. Loder-Jackson, Professor, Educational Foundations, African American Studies, and History, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Every so often we need a reminder of the history and hope in Black education. Hilton Kelly and Heather Moore Roberson have put forth a collection that forces us to look back and remember while we question forward and imagine. This volume brings together some of the most brilliant scholars in Black education. Let us listen and learn.”
Donyell L. Roseboro, Professor and Chief Diversity Officer, University of North Carolina Wilmington
“Black education has been an enduring struggle for freedom, access, equity, and excellence in a world that has largely been systematically and sentimentally anti-black. This wonderfully curated collection reflects how Black scholars have engaged this struggle, transformed the discourse, and emerged as the field of Black educational studies.”
Denise Taliaferro Baszile, Professor and Associate Dean, Miami University of Ohio