Danns Using Past as Prologue

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-68123-172-3
Verlag: Information Age Publishing
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 383 Seiten

In 1978, V. P. Franklin and James D. Anderson coedited New Perspectives on Black Educational History. For Franklin, Anderson, and their contributors, there were glaring gaps in the historiography of Black education that each of the essays began to fill with new information or fresh perspectives. There have been a number of important studies on the history of African American education in the more than three decades since Franklin and Anderson published their volume that has pushed the field forward. Scholars have redefined the views of Black southern schools as simply inferior, demonstrated the active role Blacks had in creating and sustaining their schools, sharpened our understanding of Black teachers’ and educational leaders’ role in educating Black students and themselves with professional development, provided a better understanding and recognition of the struggles in the North (particularly in urban and metropolitan areas), expanded our thinking about school desegregation and community control, and broadened our understanding of Black experiences and activism in higher education and private schools. Our volume will highlight and expand upon the changes to the field over the last three and a half decades. In the shadow of 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, contributors expand on the way African Americans viewed and experienced a variety of educational policies including segregation and desegregation, and the varied options they chose beyond desegregation. The volume covers both the North and South in the 19th and 20th centuries. Contributors explore how educators, administrators, students, and communities responded to educational policies in various settings including K12 public and private schooling and higher education. A significant contribution of the book is showcasing the growing and concentrated work in the era immediately following the Brown decision. Finally, scholars consider the historian’s engagement with recent history, contemporary issues, future directions, methodology, and teaching.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Danns, Dionne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Series page;2
3;Using Past as Prologue;4
4;Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data;5
5;Dedication;6
6;Contents;8
7;Foreword;12
8;Preface;14
9;Acknowledgments;16
10;INTRODUCTION: Towards a New History of African American Education;18
11;PART I: EDUCATION IN THE NINETEENTHAND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY;32
11.1;CHAPTER 1: Why the Nineteenth Century Still Matters;34
11.2;CHAPTER 2: A Class of Their Own;50
11.3;CHAPTER 3: Forgotten or Simply Ignored;74
12;PART II: EDUCATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY;102
12.1;CHAPTER 4: New Perspectives on Progressive Education;104
12.2;CHAPTER 5: Graduate Study and Jim Crow;134
12.3;CHAPTER 6: Words of Action;158
12.4;CHAPTER 7: “We Declare Independence from the Unjust Laws of Mississippi”;184
12.5;CHAPTER 8: The Rise and Fall of a Black Private School;218
12.6;CHAPTER 9: ”Why Are You Going All the Way Up There to That White School?”;238
13;PART III: CONTEMPORARY HISTORY AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS;268
13.1;CHAPTER 10: Control and Independence;270
13.2;CHAPTER 11: African American Education in the Age of Accountability, 1975–2005;292
13.3;CHAPTER 12: Reassessing the Achievement Gap;324
13.4;CHAPTER 13: Future Directions of Historically Black Colleges and Universities;342
13.5;CHAPTER 14: Connecting the Dots;358
14;EPILOGUE: From Freedom Schools to Freedom Schooling?;370
15;About the Editors;378
16;About the Contributors;380