Education as freedom
Subtitle: African American educational thought and activism
By: edited by Noel S. Anderson and Haroon Kharem.
Contributors: Anderson, Noel S., 1970-; Kharem, Haroon.
Publisher: Lexington books; Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780739120682; 9780739132609
Subjects: African Americans -- Education -- History; African American educators; Discrimination in education -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. "Education as freedom: African American educational thought and activism" / Noel S. Anderson and Haroon Kharem; title: From bondage to freedom: early African American educational thought and activism; title: "Medical doctor, integrationist and black nationalist: Dr. James McCune Smith and the dilemma of antebellum intellectual black activist" / Haroon Kharem; title: "John Mercer Langston and the shaping of African American education in the nineteenth century" / Judith King-Calnek; title: "On classical vs. vocational training: the educational ideas of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs" / Karen Johnson; title: This skin I'm in: African American identity and education; title: "Womanist conceptualizations of African-centered critical multiculturalism: creating new possibilities of thinking about social justice" / Sabrina Ross; title: "The performance gap: stereotype threat, assessment and the education of African American children" / Eric Hurley; title: "Katherine Dunham: decolonizing dance education" / Ojeya Cruz Banks; title: Advancing the race: African American education and social progress; title: "Live the truth: politics and pedagogy in the African-American movement for freedom and liberation" / Daniel Perlstein; title: "Black schools, white schools: Derrick Bell, race and the failure of the integration ideal in Brown" / Noel S. Anderson; title: "Research for liberation: Dubois, the Chicago school and the development of black emancipatory action research" / A.A. Akom; title: Work cited; title: Index; title: About the contributors.