Education as freedom : African American educational thought and activism /

Education as Freedom is a groundbreaking edited text that documents and reexamines African-American empirical, methodological, and theoretical contributions to knowledge-making, teaching, and learning and American education from the nineteenth through the twenty-first century, a dynamic period of Af...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Anderson, Noel S., 1970-, Kharem, Haroon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2009
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. "Education as freedom: African American educational thought and activism" / Noel S. Anderson and Haroon Kharem
  • From bondage to freedom: early African American educational thought and activism
  • "Medical doctor, integrationist and black nationalist: Dr. James McCune Smith and the dilemma of antebellum intellectual black activist" / Haroon Kharem
  • John Mercer Langston and the shaping of African American education in the nineteenth century / Judith E. King-Calnek
  • On classical versus vocational training: the educational ideas of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs / Karen A. Johnson
  • This skin I'm in: African American identity and education
  • Womanist conceptualizations of African-centered critical multiculturalism: creating new possibilities of thinking about social justice / Sabrina N. Ross
  • The performance gap: stereotype threat, assessment and the education of African American children / Eric A. Hurley
  • Katherine Dunham: decolonizing dance education / Ojeya Cruz Banks
  • Advancing the race: African American education and social progress
  • Live the truth: politics and pedagogy in the African American movement for freedom and liberation / Daniel Perlstein
  • Black schools, white schools: Derrick Bell, race and the failure of the integration ideal in Brown / Noel S. Anderson
  • Research for liberation: Du Bois, the Chicago school and the development of black emancipatory action research / A.A. Akom
  • Work cited
  • Index
  • About the contributors.