African-American/Afro-Canadian schooling
Subtitle: from the colonial period to the present
By: Charles L. Glenn
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780230114166
Subjects: RELIGION / Education; EDUCATION / History; Blacks; EDUCATION / General; Education; African Americans; History
Description: "An overview of efforts to provide formal schooling to Black children and youth in North America, from the Colonial period to the present, both in the South and in the North and Canada The account includes the damaging racial assumptions of the White majority, the often-heroic efforts of Black parents and teachers to provide education, the contributions of Black churches and White missionary organizations during Reconstruction and long after, formal and informal mechanisms of segregation in the North as well as the South, resistance to desegregation in recent decades, and new approaches to education that reduce the racial achievement gap"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Assumptions about Race * Enslaved and Free Blacks Before 1862 * Equipping the Freedman * Jim Crow South * Jim Crow North * 'Uplifting the Race' * Integration and Its Disappointments * Have We Learned Anything?